[OSM-talk] planet.osm powered "where am I"

[OJW]

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 08:10, Nick Burch wrote:
> I've knocked up a little REST service for querying planet.osm for where you
> happen to be near.

Can it do a search for the "centre" location?  e.g. items near bedford, rather 
than items near 52.1,-0.5?

Can it include only large places (towns/cities) with a wider search area?  
e.g. towns in the midlands, or cities in england?

Can it format the results as a GPX waypoints file, so that we can upload the 
result to a GPS and see local towns or villages on it?