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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Hello everybody!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> My name is Stefan and I am from Slovakia. I
am a blind user of computer and for the work with PC I am using a screenreader
which cann me to read a text from screen. I cann work with text, e-mail,
webpages, sound but not with pictures and maps. But I am interested in geography
and I would like to find some possibility for reading maps.<BR> I found a
Nominatim service and I thought that it is a chance for me. I am living in
Slovakia (48 lat and 18 lon) and I sent to Nominatim a sequence of queries where
lat was 48 and lon was step by step decremented from 18 to 0. It was great for
me to know what about countryes are under my Slovakia. I think - this is a way
for blinds - how they cann read a maps and to create some image about the world.
<BR> But now I hawe 2 questions to you. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>1. On the webpage of Nominatim service is
written:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"...The following examples use Nominatim to reverse
geocode. This is the process where you begin with a geographic coordinate and
the nearest known address is returned."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Please, what it means? When I send to
Nominatim a coordinates 40 18 <BR>(<A
href="http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=xml&lat=40&lon=18&zoom=18">http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=xml&lat=40&lon=18&zoom=18</A>)<BR>and
I get result Apulia, Italia, means it that I am really in Italia or the result
is only the nearest known address and my location 40 18 dont must be in
Italia?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>2. When I sent to Nominatim a sequence of queries
and I went from 48 18 down to 10 18, I saw, that the seas are missed. I know
that under Europe is Adriatic sea but in Nominatim results I go from Italia to
Admas Tisal and Libia. (Admas and Tisal are tagget with tag address29 without
other tags about Country or city).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Please, cann you recommend me how specify
the query when I would like to have a really information about place which is
appointed with lat and lon coordinates? Or if Nominatim is not the best
way for me, do you know some service which cann I use for reverse geolocation? I
dont need roads, houses, buildings or points. I would like browse the maps
through gps coordinates and to know in which country or city or on which sea I
am. Is it so unrealistically?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Stefan from
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