cool, thanks. I'll be adding columns for a sample feature of each type. So far, i think i found about 1/2 of them by looking at New Zealand and Iceland. I can easily cross ckeck with usgs and tiger feature schemas. But for the 1st part, I want to get the best GarminID code that fits with geonames. I should have a much clearer chart in about 1 months time, and probably mostly filled in too :) cheers, sam On 10/22/10, Marc Wick <marc@geonames.org> wrote:

The feature code scheme is based on the scheme used by the US government for foreign names (national geospatial agency). Some codes have been dropped and a few others have been added.

Best

Marc

Sam Vekemans wrote:

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Hi all.

With thanks to Marcel Bokhorst, who created the gn2mp conversion script, I created the GoogleDocs chart listing all of the features

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dENGRWNOQ3lmeU5UbWlORFZ...

I have cross-posted this message to the mkgmap developers, who are working on the conversion program which takes the OpenStreetMap Features and figures out exactly which Xml KEY/VALUE pairs match up with the GarminIDs.

I'm still working on the charts, for example the detailed GarminIDs with the https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dGdSaEwwTUx5eGtzSFdPbmZ...

And am currently working on finding a sample from GeoNames to show for each feature.

So my 1 question for the geonames group is, what is the origional source for the map feature schema? Was it created from scratch or derived from somewhere? Thanks, Sam Vekemans Across Canada Trails

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