From: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
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To: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
Cc: | Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>, Rudi Starcevic <rudi(at)oasis(dot)net(dot)au>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Off topic : world database |
Date: | 2003-04-01 15:36:38 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.53.0304011935040.27392@ra.sai.msu.su |
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 19:26:33 +0400,
> Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
> > I don't know if it's legal to use data from
> > http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html
> > but it's a huge collection of geo data.
>
> I found that as it was referenced from the calea site. And NIMA points
> to another US government site that contains data for the US and
> Antartica (which the NIMA site doesn't). These places seem to be a better
> place to get the data than calea since you can get the data in a smaller
> number of downloads and you don't have to extract the data from html.
> There is also location data for other kinds of objects besides populated
> places.
I already tried to play with data from NIMA and notice many problems
with parsing files to load into db. Also, russian names are in translit :-)
>
Regards,
Oleg
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