[OSM-talk] OSM Data

[David Earl]

On 28/08/2008 11:08, fx5900 wrote:
> Hi guys, 
> 
>     I would like to store this map which i have taken from OSM site which
> can be seen via clicking the download link www.megaupload.com/?d=5Y58619K
> and store its information such as the names of places, road names,
> cor-ordinates etc in a database. Then create an application similar to that
> of google map that queries the database  in such as way that if i type Great
> Portland Street, in a search bar the map will then be shown with a pointer
> indicating where Great Portland stree is. 
> 
> Now what i would like to know is after i have decided on what i want to
> store, how do i go about storing this. I also have POST GIS/POSTGRES db as
> well on my system and Python 2.5. Can somebody suggest a way of doing so
> thanks 

Do you know about name finder: 
http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder which does exactly this?

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder

David