Re: [Gramps-users] [Gramps-devel] Geonames

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

The place completion tool uses geonames data:
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Place_completion_tool#Download_resources

My experience two years ago with this was that the web interface was much to
slow to use interactively. That is why the resource must be downloaded.
That might have changed however.

Benny

2007/11/26, Gerald Britton <ger...@gm...>:
>
> All -- I don't know if this has been highlighted before:
>
> Geonames
>
> The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of
> charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over
> eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique
> features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million
> alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine
> feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature
> codes. (more statistics ...).
> The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices
> and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 3
> million web service requests per day.
>
> GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in
> various languages, elevation, population and others from various
> sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System
> 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user
> friendly wiki interface.
>
> Here is a good interview with the founder, Marc Wick:
>
> http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/index.php/id;664453065;fp;4;fpid;792452
>
> I'm wondering if this might be a project we could use within gramps --
> perhaps as an adjunct to Places and Addresses (though I hope that this
> two converge one day soon!)
>
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