[OSM-talk] List of UK Towns and Cities

[Nick Black]

On 7/9/06, OJW <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > I am wondering if anyone has extracted a list of UK towns and cities
> > > > with Lat and Lon from OSM data?  If so could I get a copy of it.  If
> > > > not, I'll set about doing it myself - just wanted to check first.
>
> I extracted a list of "interesting nodes" from planet.osm, containing anything
> with a tag other than "created_by" or "highway" (and a few other obviously
> uninteresting tags)
>
> http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Data/node_list.txt.gz
>
> There's a link to that on planet.osm wiki page too
>
>
> Also, we have a little list of towns that gets used for creating the PDF
> atlas:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF_atlas/places.txt
>
> (there might be a more recent version of that on SVN, I'm not sure)

The lobgitude for the city "Dunfermline" is way off - its in the North
Sea.  Its also incorrect in the Geonames.org database.  I've marked it
as incorrect on the wiki.

Nick
>
>
> Regards
>
> OJW
>
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