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Include GeoNames to verify admin boundaries #72

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mattigrthr opened this issue Jan 16, 2022 · 0 comments
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Include GeoNames to verify admin boundaries #72

mattigrthr opened this issue Jan 16, 2022 · 0 comments
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enhancement New feature or request new data source Issues about including a new data source pipeline/admin-boundaries Issues related to the admin-boundaries pipeline pipeline Issues related to pipelines

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We are currently building the admin boundary hierarchy of a country based on OSM data. One common use case is to group data by city. Since the number of the admin levels on OSM have different meanings in different countries (e.g., admin level 8 might be a city in the US, but in Germany admin level 6 might be used for cities), we should include another data source for determining city names.

GeoNames is an open database of worldwide country and city names. We can use their data dumps to get relevant city names of countries worldwide and match them with our OSM admin boundaries.

@mattigrthr mattigrthr added enhancement New feature or request pipeline Issues related to pipelines new data source Issues about including a new data source pipeline/admin-boundaries Issues related to the admin-boundaries pipeline labels Jan 16, 2022
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