[OSM-talk] ImgAtlas - search API again?

[OJW]

On Thursday 15 March 2007 19:58, Jonas Svensson wrote:
> And quite a biggie: an index-command. Ie at the end be able to add
> pages containing an index of the used maps. The index should be of
> all names mentioned and a reference to which page/map they appeared
> on. This would need processing of raw osm-data either from planet
> dump or by download. Probably a huge task but might be an idea to
> consider any way.

Wouldn't it be nice if the OSM API could return "cities and town nodes within 
bounding box x,y,x,y" -- then the atlas could use it to generate placename 
indexes...