Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:36:38 +0400 (MSD)
From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>,
	Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Off topic : world database
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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@sai.msu.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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