On Tue, June 24, 2008 17:13, Phil Endecott wrote: > So I was wondering whether anyone here knows how I could improve on > this, i.e. > > - Is there an "improved" version somewhere with more ranking > information in it?
www.geonames.org ? They aggregate lots of data sources and tend to have more "place" nodes in remote areas of the world. > - Is there equivalent data in the OSM database, with rankings of some sort, that I could extract a dump of? You could parse the is_in tags / relations. In general, you found one of our bigger unsolved problems ;-) Regards, Hakan -- The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
