Re: [OSM-dev] USGS VGI Workshop: Worldwide Geographic Names

2010-02-21 Thread David Gunn
Hi Apollinaris - At this point, I am referring primarily to GNS data ( http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html). I am very familiar with the data. Sections of the data are very good and ought to be considered for import into OSM. Are you familiar with the GNS? Dave On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:

Re: [OSM-dev] USGS VGI Workshop: Worldwide Geographic Names

2010-02-20 Thread Ian Dees
Also, most of the USGS GNIS names have already been imported (if that's what you were talking about). On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I have done some imports and may be able to help. Can you describe in more > detail what kind of data. POI, ways, area,

Re: [OSM-dev] USGS VGI Workshop: Worldwide Geographic Names

2010-02-20 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
Hi Dave, I have done some imports and may be able to help. Can you describe in more detail what kind of data. POI, ways, area, … What format and license. Apollinaris On 20 Feb 2010, at 9:55 , SteveC wrote: > bouncing to dev... > > On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:53 AM, David Gunn wrote: > >> Hi Steve

Re: [OSM-dev] USGS VGI Workshop: Worldwide Geographic Names

2010-02-20 Thread SteveC
bouncing to dev... On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:53 AM, David Gunn wrote: > Hi Steve - We met briefly at the USGS VGI Workshop. I work professionally > with geographic names collection and standardization. I'd like to volunteer > to help add large datasets of standard geographic names to OSM. I have an