Hi, On 06/25/2017 01:32 PM, Peter Krauss wrote: > I am looking for a OSM's webservice where we can request a canonical > place name, and it returns the polygon associated with the place?
I think it would be possible to write something like this, either perusing existing hierarchies in Wikipedia, or evaluating OSM data yourself in a suitable server setup. Have a look at https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ which already does a lot of boundary processing. We're unlikely to add a service like that to the core of OSM but the beauty of OSM is that with all the data being available openly, such a service does not *need* to be in the core (and make the core ever more complex to run) - such a service can be developed and operated by a third party. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
