Re: [Talk-us] More USGS Geonames imports

2009-03-29 Thread Alan Millar
> Do you mean Geonames as in the website (http://www.geonames.org) or is > Geonames a seperate USGS dataset with the same name? Good question. This a separate dataset which just happens to have the same name. It is a work of the USGS, unrelated to geonames.org. You can check it out at geonames

Re: [Talk-us] More USGS Geonames imports

2009-03-29 Thread Nick Black
Alan, Do you mean Geonames as in the website (http://www.geonames.org) or is Geonames a seperate USGS dataset with the same name? The Geonames website derives from Google Maps, so we should not import it into OSM. Cheers, On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Alan Millar wrote: > I'm importing mor

Re: [Talk-us] gnis:reviewed=no & map features

2009-03-29 Thread Alan Millar
> if you can put the list of features along with the corrisponding OSM > tag to a wiki page, this would be helpful :) > (then i can help match features & cross-check to what i have) Unfortunately, in the case of my import for USGS Geonames items, they don't have specific feature categories. I'm d

[Talk-us] gnis:reviewed=no & map features

2009-03-29 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, if you can put the list of features along with the corrisponding OSM tag to a wiki page, this would be helpful :) (then i can help match features & cross-check to what i have) i'm opting NOT to use the tag "geobase:reviewed=no" (perhaps someone can convince me otherwise?) Here's why; The defau