[OSM-talk] Improving on the NGA placenames data

[Hakan Tandogan]

On Tue, June 24, 2008 17:13, Phil Endecott wrote:
> So I was wondering whether anyone here knows how I could improve on
> this, i.e.
>
> - Is there an "improved" version somewhere with more ranking
> information in it?

www.geonames.org ? They aggregate lots of data sources and tend to have
more "place" nodes in remote areas of the world.

> - Is there equivalent data in the OSM database, with rankings of some
sort, that I could extract a dump of?

You could parse the is_in tags / relations.

In general, you found one of our bigger unsolved problems ;-)


Regards,
Hakan


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