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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