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Thanks. Although to some it may be \"just Natural Earth\", we thought it could be useful. JSON, CSV and SQL should be more helpful than the original shape files when…",{"value":53,"source":47,"evidence":54},"free",[55],{"id":56},"post",[],"open_source","beta","unknown",{"praise":62,"objections":71,"requests":124,"questions":158,"alternatives":177},[63],{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Useful and helpful free dataset","commenter",[67],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"10278229","vezzoni","congratz, nice job! really interesting and helpful. I'll try to use it. nowadays I am using sollo atlas (which is used by the http:\u002F\u002Fwww.findmyninja.io):…",[72,87,102,113],{"value":73,"source":65,"evidence":74},"Character encoding errors in place names",[75,79,83],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"10277248","Quai","First three norwegian cities I looked up was given the wrong name. (Plesund (should be Ålesund), Bodi (Bodø) and Tdnsberg (Tønsberg)). So, I think it is safe to say that there…",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"10277267","bhaak","There's definitely something wrong. Looking at the SQL file, \"Zürich\" is listed as \"Zdrich\", Munich is only shown as \"Munich\" without the German name \"München\" anywhere, and…",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"10277313","seszett","French names have the same problem, with \"La Réunion\" being shown as \"La Rcunion\" and \"Rhône-Alpes\" as \"RhAne-Alpes\". It's strange, I can't really understand how these accents…",{"value":88,"source":65,"evidence":89},"Data appears to be Natural Earth repackaged, with source unclear",[90,94,98],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"10277094","Vespasian","So this is bascially Natural Earth repacked as JSON, CSV and SQL? It's a nice start. I like it. Would it be possible to add the programm \u002Finstructions you used for converting the…",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"10277306","maze-le","Actually, according to the resource-file is isn't Natural Earth after all. The column-names almost fit the NE-Datasaet though...",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"10277517","anc84","The SOURCE.md file only lists Natural Earth.",{"value":103,"source":65,"evidence":104},"Apache licence is inappropriate for data and conflicts with ODbL sources",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"10277207","rmc","\"RESOURCES.md\" ( https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fdelight-im\u002FFreeGeoDB\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002FRESOURCES.md ) includes OpenStreetMap, which is licenced under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). You cannot…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"10277243","legulere","Apache seems a strange license for data. Why not CC-0 like for instance wikidata?",{"value":114,"source":65,"evidence":115},"No update or provenance information",[116,120],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"10278142","electriclove","How will this be kept up-to-date?",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"10278211","spacemanmatt","Yeah, a quick perusal (VERY quick) revealed no provenance, maintenance, or currency information. There's a lot more to data than a snapshot of some tables.",[125,133,140,147],{"value":126,"source":65,"evidence":127},"Provide build scripts to reproduce the dataset",[128,129],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"10281302","lobster_johnson","Instead of Markdown file, you should consider creating a set of scripts that will fetch, cache and process upstream data into the desired formats. As someone interested in using…",{"value":134,"source":65,"evidence":135},"Add PostGIS SQL version and proper geometry columns",[136,137],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},{"id":138,"by":92,"text":139},"10278373","For what I've seen the data type of the columns is always varchar and not geometry. Not a big issues merely it's more convenient otherwise ;)",{"value":141,"source":65,"evidence":142},"Add road and railroad names",[143],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"10277059","aembleton","This would have been useful if the railroads and roads actually had names attached to them.",{"value":148,"source":65,"evidence":149},"Use GeoJSON or lon\u002Flat columns",[150,154],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"10278817","jerrysievert","unfortunately, while it is in JSON, it is not in GEOJSON, nor anything that appears to be standard. at least the points are in WKT, so should be able to be converted into…",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"10277837","krick","There are free airport lists that are much more complete. Also, two columns (lon, lat) for points would be better, as it's much easier to transform \"lon, lat\" into \"POINT(lon…",[159,163,170],{"value":160,"source":65,"evidence":161},"How will the data be kept up to date?",[162],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},{"value":164,"source":65,"evidence":165},"How does it compare to GeoNames?",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"10277093","IanCal","Looks interesting, how would you compare it to GeoNames?",{"value":171,"source":65,"evidence":172},"Will historical boundary changes be tracked?",[173],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"10281166","mileszim","Cool! Do you have any plans to track historical changes of geospacial areas? What reference frame are you using for labeling areas? (places America considers countries vs what…",[178,186,190],{"value":179,"source":65,"evidence":180},"GeoNames",[181,185],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"10278573","Crocode","The data like these are available for free (and updated by community!) for years. See http:\u002F\u002Fwww.geonames.org\u002F Numerous website use the Geonames dataset foe there work. (I also…",{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},{"value":187,"source":65,"evidence":188},"Natural Earth",[189],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},{"value":191,"source":65,"evidence":192},"Sollo atlas",[193],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},{"comments":195,"answered":196,"key":197},18,6,[198,201,204],{"id":199,"text":200},"10281036","Interesting question! You've got the replies already. Just wanted to clarify that this issue does not affect FreeGeoDB.",{"id":202,"text":203},"10281022","This is true! Thank you!",{"id":205,"text":206},"10281047","That's just miscommunication caused by us, sorry! The \"RESOURCES.md\" does only contain helpful links and generic resources for working with map\u002Fgeo data. 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