--- On Tue, 4/8/09, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If care is taken with the selection of places / names, such
> a map may become quite useful for geocoding. We want only
> "the" Paris. We want abbreviations like NY, as
> long as they do not lead to confusion. Sources of
> information include geonames and wikipedia.
> 
> 
> Anyone interested in helping with such a project ?

osm2navit does something like this, it only uses 1 out of 100 nodes to shrink 
the file size etc.


      

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