a bit of caveat when using gns for openstreetmap http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-January/000363.html
In some areas, gns is hugely inaccurate but still worth it to add to osm. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Upliner Mikhalych <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/1/22 6:47 D Tucny wrote: >> GNS however is a valid source... >> http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html > Thank you. This datasource will be useful anyway. I've accidentally > missed it on Potential Datasources page. >> I'm just looking at mapping the correct feature types and looking at the >> possibility of matching administrative records to populated place records in >> an attempt to calculate place size... > Even using ADM objects for hand editing will be almost appropriate > solution. This is better than trying to guess place type by satellite > imagery. > > -- > Best regards, > Upliner > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
