On 09/05/2013 14:32, Chris Travers wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Pongrácz István
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I check it, it seems it can found my village, so, it is working :)
As I can see, the licensing is CC and there are some limits (2000
request per hour, 30000 per day) but I think 30000 per day could
be enough for most users :)
It should be an option to upload our own geo database, which also
could include street names too. In Hungary it is possible to
access to a free database, which contains the fresh information.
Certainly their paid downloads would make life easier but my thinking
was actually to take the free CC-BY downloads, turn them into a
PostgreSQL extension (with attribution, links in the docs, etc).
I am not looking at interfacing with their web services. I am hoping
that it would further be of general interest by geospacial apps so a
good place on pgxn would be helpful to us too. Hopefully it would
help cultivate contributions to geonames too.
No I wasn't looking at the web services either, just at the monthly
"high quality" downloads where they charge EUR60 a month for
significantly cleaned up data. There isn't an indication of whether you
can use this as part of a commercial offering, or embed it into open
source code.
I guess the best and most ethical approach is to allow the extension to
use either download and let the user decide whether or not they want the
high quality paid-for data (in which case they can pay Geonames for it)
or the free, lower quality data.
Nigel
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book
"Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and
their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed
leaders in the field. The early access version is available now.
Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may
_______________________________________________
Ledger-smb-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
