[OSM-talk] Google Maps - OSM comparison

[Bernhard Zwischenbrugger]

Hi

When I did this capital comparison I searched for

o A relation that contains all capitals (didn't find)
o Then I wanted to use osmxapi - but that was down
o Then I tried to search for microformats for geolocations in Wikipedia 
but there are only a few cities with microformats
o namefinder in combination with a wiki page was by far the best 
solution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals)

I'm really happy with the result we have now.

o We realized that somebody has stolen London
o Many capitals are not in the map jet - people can improve osm
o For the namefinder sorting the result can be a challenge

I made a new page with

o not found capitals
o update button

http://lamp2.fhstp.ac.at/~lbz/beispiele/ws2008/capitals/status.php

If there is a better solution to find capitals and WGS84 points let me know.



Bernhard
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