Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geospatial data

Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by marco1 on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:21PM (#10281070)

This is definitely a major problem that has to be fixed! Thanks for pointing this out again.

The complete build process is described in "SOURCE.md". That's where we got these encoding issues from -- right from the source material. Maybe we didn't open or parse the source material correctly. But we were not able to get them without the encoding errors.

We'll love to fix all these issues :)

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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by lobster_johnson on Friday September 25, 2015 @07:16PM (#10281302)

Instead of Markdown file, you should consider creating a set of scripts that will fetch, cache and process upstream data into the desired formats. As someone interested in using this data, I really need to be able to easily run the entire build process myself.

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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by marco1 on Saturday September 26, 2015 @07:24AM (#10282773)

Of course, you're right, thanks! This has been noted down as one of the next steps that are required.

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