Ishan, The license for the nga data is here: https://www.nga.mil/ProductsServices/GeographicNames/Pages/default.aspx
"There are no licensing requirements or restrictions in place for the use of the GNS data. However, we recommend using the following citation to identify the GNS as a source: Toponymic information is based on the Geographic Names Data Base, containing official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency name, initials, and seal are protected by 10 United States Code Section 425." geonames.org <http://s.bl-1.com/h/t1mf8j0?url=http://geonames.org/> has many sources (which the nga data was the original dataset): http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html <http://s.bl-1.com/h/t1mfD52?url=http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jothirnadh, > Can you please point us to the license info of the nga.mil server you > mentioned in the blog? In case it is not of appropriate license, we cannot > import into OSM. I believe geonames.org data is not of suitable license > (others can correct me if I'm wrong). Is the data at the nga.mil map > layer based on geonames.org? > Regards, > Ishan > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Aneesh T <doc.ane...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not by a long shot... It's extremely time consuming >> On 25 Nov 2015 2:21 p.m., "Arun Ganesh" <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Aneesh, are the towns and villages in Karnataka 100% complete? >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Aneesh T <doc.ane...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If you're interested in Karnataka.. The kpwd website has village names >>>> which can be mapped out... As has been done by several contributors.. >>>> On 25 Nov 2015 1:04 p.m., "Jothirnadh Sai" <jothirn...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear OSM community, >>>>> >>>>> My name is Jothirnadh <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jothirnadh> >>>>> and I recently entered the OSM community as a crowd mapper. I found that >>>>> there are many unmapped towns and villages in India and on the process of >>>>> finding ways to add them I wrote a OSM diary post >>>>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jothirnadh/diary/36793> on >>>>> explaining the ways to improve the data. It would be great to have more >>>>> eyes on it and feedback from the OSM community on improvement of the >>>>> missing towns and villages data on OSM. >>>>> >>>>> With Regards, >>>>> JOTHIRNADH >>>>> Open Data Analyst >>>>> Mapbox, India >>>>> Phn No.: +919490712829 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Talk-in mailing list >>>>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-in mailing list >>>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Arun Ganesh >>> (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> >>> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-in mailing list >>> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-in mailing list >> Talk-in@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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