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Hello,

I've come accross the following website: http://www.unsalb.org.
SALB is for Second Administrative Level Boundaries, and the website is part of a United Nations project.

They provide free polygon information for numerous countries, among which some may be more recent than on Geonames.

As I don't see this source in your list, I thought it could help...

Regards,
Ludovic

Greetings -

The first and second administrative units download will be useful.

Thank You.

Regards,

The problem with the UN data is that it is published under a very restrictive license.

Best

Marc

Greetings -

And the administrative units are not as up-to-date as they say they are. I have found old data in some of the USA stuff.

Kindest Regards,

Hello Marc,

thank you for your answer.
I'd be glad to help find polygon information to improve the quality of the database. However, I first need to understand the kind of licence you need.

Concerning the UN dataset mentioned above, they state that:
Copyright of the SALB dataset (codes and digital maps) is vested in the UN. The owner of the data agrees on the use, reproduction, distribution, display, publication and dissemination at no cost to third parties of the SALB dataset, in any manner and in any form whatsoever, subject to the copyright and acknowledgement mentioned in the metadata. It is prohibited to change the contents of the database without consent of the owner.

This doesn't seem very restrictive to me, but I'm sure I'm not aware of all constraints you have. So could you tell me what I should be looking for?

By the way, it may be usefull to publish a list of all polygon information you have, along with their recency, in order users could help find missing information...

Regards,
Ludovic

On the unsalb page they write that the data is licensed under "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works". It basically means you are not allowed to use it for anything.

Best

Marc