I have found alot more information on these sites.
If the data is in error, it can be reported.
Also there are date fields for the records.
There are population information fields, congress districts and more.

http://iaspub.epa.gov/Cleanups/RcraProfile.jsp?handler_id=NJ0000061846

I did not consult. But I am willing to put in the work to fix it.
It is not that hard to make an update to the data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Capitalize/Capitalize.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~summer/Lingua-EN-NameCase/

Ok, the next steps will be to rename all the items removing the CAPSLOCK.
Also to add in the is_in information about the town, county etc.
thanks to goldfndr__ for the suggestions.

Ok, I have done a big update on the names
osm.org/browse/changeset/3348720 and others.

Please report any problems.
mike

I have reworked a dirt hack version of my merger.
What it does is use the note field to uniquely define what nodes are unique. It takes an osm file that contains the badly named node with ids and the orginal nodes with negative ids in it.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kosova/%2Bjunk/openstreetmapkosova/revision/96#merge_duplicates_formines.pl

Well, I just found it as possible one after searching for data sources on data.gov. Obviously it is not relevant. I have found better sources since.

osm.wiki/Potential_Datasources#National I have documented the sources that I found interesting on data.gov and will be fixing the names today.

Yes, I am working on fixing this import. The names will be updated. We can reverse them and I will reimport. Otherwise just wait and i am fixing my merge script. Sorry about that, josm killed the names on me!

http://www.bis.doc.gov/enforcement/unverifiedlist/unverifiedlist.txt
Unverifed List of Foreign Persons Red Flagged for Exporting Actions

I am talking about this :
International Station Catalogue

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/radiosglobe/stations_sorting_lists/stnlist-historical.html

I found out about the list from the leaked data, but the list is there and public.

Ok I removed the Chuthulu one as well.

Ok it is deleted, but forever to be seen!
http://api.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/559172336/history

It was tagged as :
place = imaginary_village

Also,I added the sunken city of Chthulu as well. Should I remove them all? All marked as imaginary.

I mean real discussions about uganda :
One such good idea has been happening in Uganda: Using OpenStreetMap mapping to help with rural development projects. Robert Soden of US communications firm Development Seed has been working with some development groups working in Bigoda, a small Ugandan village, who are now using OpenStreetMap and Quantum GIS to map out the village.

not this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_in-jokes_in_Private_Eye
# "Ugandan discussions", or a variation thereof, is often used as a euphemism for illicit sex, usually while carrying out a supposedly official duty. The term originally refers to an incident at a party hosted by journalist Neal Ascherson and his first wife, at which fellow journalist Mary Kenny had a "meaningful confrontation" with a former cabinet minister in the government of Milton Obote, later alleging that they were "upstairs discussing Uganda". The poet James Fenton apparently coined the term.[1] The saying is often wrongly attributed to the antics of a female Cabinet minister in Idi Amin's government, who was caught having sex in a public lavatory at Heathrow Airport. The euphemism is spread further, for example, before his marriage a senior member of the Royal family allegedly went on holiday with an ageing ex-Page Three girl, whereupon Private Eye reported he had contracted a "Ugandan virus". In 1996, "Getting Back to Basics" was suggested as a replacement euphemism after the notoriously hypocritical policy of the same name adopted by John Major's government.

I am thinking of local servers, layers of them working together to map the world.
each local team would have its own central server that is pulled from bigger and bigger servers until we get the central one.
the local servers could run a database and gui instance, and have the rendering tools.
git allows the raw data to be stored, and stores only unique ones.
if you put the small enough files of data on there, only the unique ones will be stored, nodes and ways as files for example.

No spam, listen.

let me explain myself. I am thinking about a distributed git repository for openstreetmap.

Imagine you would get all your data needed via git, and would communicate with others via commits to git.

this would be distributed to other people.

even tiles would be rendered and checked in, maybe to a different area but with the same naming scheme.

you wont need a central database, you could add the names to a central index file that is also in git. So basically you would get away from a central database and import and export.

The other tools could be made to run off of these static pages by embedding code/data in the page that would be executed/evaluated when needed.

this would work via richer clients and allow mapping to be done by a peer to peer sharing load sharing system.

mike

Source code checked
in https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesmikedupont/introspectorreader/wikipedia-strategy

Hi,
well I will make a video message on it.
Basically I removed all the duplicate points.
Now I will update all the points with albanian names if missing.
mike

Here is a nice picture of the Laurie Island
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3285256&id=523456582