[OSM-talk] Wiki cities

[Mikel Maron]

> > What about using a naming scheme like:
> >   City-<country>-<Name-of-City>
> >   City-DE-Kirchheim
> >   City-UK-Bedford
>
> Would make more sense to use Wikipedia's name for the city, so it's easy to 
> create links between them and us automatically...  
> 
> They have a page at: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(city_names)

Would be worthwhile to look at using GeoNames to set convention for city names/ids. We are already using them for city search
on www, and they are compiling several databases together, including wikipedia geotagged places.



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