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An open source gazetteer constructed on ontological principles
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Evaluate coverage of GAZ with respect to other resources #32

Open cmungall opened 5 years ago

cmungall commented 5 years ago

We are currently aligning to wikidata (#3)

It would be useful to see a complete landscape picture of what is covered and not covered in existing resources, alongside any licensing restrictions.

This can help us with prioritizing curation resources - no need to redo what is there in an existing open resources

geonames seems to be CC-BY, so would be no issue in re-using

They have a premium tier but I don't think we need it http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html

Cross-ticket on RDP: https://github.com/reusabledata/reusabledata/issues/185