>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals >>> If I can use that, then I can find all the capitals, and just tag them. >> How about geonames database - is that usable?
> We cannot use data from geonames as the data is derived from Google Maps. > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-May/014038.html > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Geonames Sorry - let me me more precise. I was referring to the original us goverment database of the same name: http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/detaillinksearch.asp?G_NAME=%2732FA881891803774E0440003BA962ED3%27&Diacritics=DC My understanding as that all US data of this type is in the public domain. -- Brian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk