I put a wrapper around the rather excellent http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script which can tell you which town/county/state/country something is in:
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=51.51&lon=-0.05 - which replies that the specified numbers are in Tower Hamlets and London and the UK It does mean you can get all the admin levels for a place using just one line of PHP: $MyArray = explode("\n", file_get_contents(sprintf("http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=%f&lon=%f";, 51.51, -0.05))); (so $MyArray[1] would then contain the country name. Apparently this is ISO 3166-1) Results are cached, so hopefully it doesn't hit 78.46.81.38 again if you download the same place many times. I assume most people will be using this to lookup OSM place nodes, so it might manage to cache a few results if everyone is asking what country London is in... Tagging-wise, we seem to be missing a few minor places, like the United States: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=29.4&lon=-98.5 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
