[OSM-newbies] City and Area Data

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 21:22, dl <signup at squawkdesign.com> wrote:
> I am trying to find a list of all German cityies/towns and their areas (Stadtteile).
> Is it possible to obtain this from openstreetmap? If yes, how would I export
> the relevant data for use in a relational mysql database?
>
> I already looked at opengeodb, but their data is very incomplete at this level,
> and geonames, whose data is linked wrong in a lot of cases. (Areas in Hamburg
> suddenly show up in Munich.)

It would be better to ask this on talk-de probably (they also know
English). The answer to your question is almost definitely "no" if you
want "all". Unless the Germans have been much more diligent than I
thought in the last few months.

We don't have areas for /all/ town in any country probably. We
probably have at least points for all of them (but maybe we missed
some).

If you're interested in the bigger areas in Germany however OSM is
probably much better. Any major city in Germany has a bunch of
relations defining its borders.

Just don't count on it for smaller cities / towns.