> honestly, of all the place databases out there, none of them fit our needs.
> none of them have the combination of unrestrictive licensing + data and IDs
> for countries going down to neighborhoods (arbitrarily sized things) + have
> the ability for creation, updating, etc. we are building something that
> will be available through the API that the entire ecosystem can use (and,
> not just for tweeting), so its a fairly unique set of constraints.
Hmm doesn't OSM contain sufficient data to actually be turned into a
place database?
I'm thinking administrative boundaries et al.
Mathias.
