HI Hannu another question, would you, or someone else on this list be interested in doing this work? We have a small (€500) budget for the project.
Please let me know and enjoy the weekend Ed 2016-07-21 8:13 GMT+02:00 Ed Freyfogle <freyfo...@gmail.com>: > Thanks Hannu for the fast answer > > > Am Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2016 schrieb Hannu Kauppinen : > >> Hi, >> >> The sub-region (seutukunta) is not much used in Finland, so I guess >> nobody has taken the time to model these into OSM. >> >> Statistics Finland provides a key for creating the mapping from >> municipalities to sub-regions: >> >> http://www.stat.fi/meta/luokitukset/seutukunta/001-2016/luokitusavain_teksti.txt >> >> Wikipedia provides the mapping from sub-regions to regions: >> https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_seutukunnat >> >> Now we just need someone with enough time to include this information to >> OSM. >> >> Br, >> Hannu >> >> Lainaus Ed Freyfogle <freyfo...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I'm doing a project which involves getting the regions, sub-regions and >>> municipalities of Finland out of OSM. >>> >>> Regions and Municipalities are perfect, but many of the sub-regions don't >>> seem to exist in OSM. >>> Of the 70 (my source is Wikipedia, I have very little personal knowledge >>> of >>> Finnish geography) >>> I find only 12! >>> >>> As an example, consider "Imatran seutukunta" >>> https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatran_seutukunta >>> >>> A search in nominatim turns up nothing with that name (I also searched >>> for >>> the Swedish and English version of the name) >>> When I search for Parikkala, one of the municipalities within the >>> sub-region, I get here >>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=144679689 >>> >>> which shows that it is a child of South Karelia, which is a region, not a >>> sub-region. >>> >>> Why do most of the sub-regions not exist in OSM? Is it just that no one >>> has >>> added them yet? Or are they not used in real life? >>> >>> Many thanks for any insights you can share. >>> >>> best regards >>> Ed >>> >>> >> >>
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