[mkgmap-dev] [GeoNames] GarminID's GoogleDocs spreadsheet

Fri Oct 22 16:27:08 BST 2010

The feature code scheme is based on the scheme used by the US government 
for foreign names (national geospatial agency).
Some codes have been dropped and a few others have been added.

Best

Marc

Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> With thanks to Marcel Bokhorst, who created the gn2mp conversion script,
> I created the GoogleDocs chart listing all of the features
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dENGRWNOQ3lmeU5UbWlORFZTZFpvRWc&hl=en
>
> I have cross-posted this message to the mkgmap developers, who are
> working on the conversion program which takes the OpenStreetMap
> Features and figures out exactly which Xml KEY/VALUE pairs match up
> with the GarminIDs.
>
> I'm still working on the charts, for example the detailed GarminIDs with the
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dGdSaEwwTUx5eGtzSFdPbmZPQlpBTEE&hl=en
>
> And am currently working on finding a sample from GeoNames to show for
> each feature.
>
> So my 1 question for the geonames group is, what is the origional
> source for the map feature schema? Was it created from scratch or
> derived from somewhere?
> Thanks,
> Sam Vekemans
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