[OSM-talk] List of UK Towns and Cities

[Nick Black]

The "-" sign was missing - the position of Dunfermline should be:

Dunfermline: 56.08, -3.46, 0.07, city

I've updated it on the Wiki, but not in the source file.

Nick





On 7/10/06, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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