I would never do anything that is questionable with regard to the OSM project. I was just throwing it out there to see what people think/ say.

I started to think this morning; I go and take a gps reading at the center of my downtown. It is literally 5 feet from a lat/ long that is copyrighted by a commercial map provider. they have the same name as well. Can I publish this location and name, or does someone own it!?!??

Zverik, I have a few questions with regard to the data you told me to look at (gkgn_v8.zip). The data isn’t for the entire nation is it? When extracting the files there are two for every admin 1. For example there is a 01_F_201(Республика Адыгея).gpx and a 01_F_202_нп (Республика Адыгея).gpx do you know what the difference is between these for all of the files? I do not know what a “_нп” represents? I reached out to liosha through a message and on the forum, but have not heard anything back as of yet. Are the pdf’s parsed from data located here: https://rosreestr.ru/wps/portal/cc_ib_data_catalog_place_names?param_infoblock_document_path=infoblock-root/cc_ib_data_catalog_place_names/index.htm

Thanks!

Zverik, Thank you for the information. I will have to research the link and data you sent above. I have been contacting people all day and inofrmaion is starting to come back so I have to follow up on every lead! I did reach out to who I think is the head person at Yandex Geo, but in all honesty I have no clue (I am on facebook but not VK/ VKontakte) - and they do not seem to be on facebook. Any information I receive I plan on sharing with the larger OSM/ gis-lab community. I hope I find what I am looking for soon!

aseerel4c26 - my questions are above. Could you assist?

Zverik, I am looking for official sources of locational data. I have found what I believe to be valuable data here: KLADR (http://www.gnivc.ru/inf_provision/class … nce/kladr/ ) and FIAS (http://fias.nalog.ru/Public/DownloadPage.aspx ) but there isn’t any latitude/ longitude. I am looking for something like that - whether it is point, polygon data or csv data with latitude/ longitude, etc. Or just any knowledge of who to contact or knowledge of such data. Could you assist!?

Maybe Navteq/ Nokia should give back some of its data…

I do not know how to go in that page and edit it, sorry!?

what is the source of the data?

I was looking for official names of the airports/ airstrips, not the actual runway numbered names. Sorry about the confusion ;)

I originally found them on LandSat data I downloaded from GLOVIS. I just put up a google link to ask people about them. I didn't plan on using google for names or geometry in the creation of data. I was just wondering about the names. Thanks to all who responded.