[OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

John Smith delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 31 02:23:07 BST 2009




--- On Thu, 30/7/09, OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I put a wrapper around the rather
> excellent
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script
> which can
> tell you which town/county/state/country something is in:

I haven't looked at the script but it doesn't cope well with US locations at all...

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=40.75&lon=-74

And it didn't like Australian state borders. I'm not sure if the script needs an update or the way the borders were tagged.

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=-33.87&lon=151.21


      




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