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Free database of geographic place names and corresponding geospatial data

7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 4 stories, 3 comments · first 2015-04-07 · latest 2016-10-07

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2015 (6)
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    Show HN: FreeGeoDB
    story by marco1 · 2016-10-07 · 0 comments
  2. Looks like they include instructions on how to build in SOURCE.md ( https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/blob/master/SOURCE.m... ) - would be great to have that linked in the README though.
  3. It seems like OpenStreetMap is not actually the source for the data - https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/issues/1#issuecommen...
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    Free database of geographic place names and corresponding geospatial data
    story by shagunsodhani · 2015-09-25 · 0 comments
  5. "RESOURCES.md" ( https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/blob/master/RESOURCE... ) includes OpenStreetMap, which is licenced under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). You cannot relicence it under the Apache licence. I've raised an issue (…
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    Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geospatial data
    story by marco1 · 2015-09-25 · 52 comments
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    Show HN: Geodata for cities, countries and airports in JSON and CSV
    story by marco1 · 2015-04-07 · 0 comments