<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>> > What about using a naming scheme like:<br><div>> > City-<country>-<Name-of-City><br>> > City-DE-Kirchheim<br>> > City-UK-Bedford<br>><br>> Would make more sense to use Wikipedia's name for the city, so it's easy to <br>> create links between them and us automatically... <br>> <br>> They have a page at: <br><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28city_names">> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(city_names</a>)<br><br>Would be worthwhile to look at using GeoNames to set convention for city names/ids. We are already using them for city search<br>on www, and they
are compiling several databases together, including wikipedia geotagged places.<br><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk"></a></div></div></div></div></body></html>