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

[OJ W]

add a mode tag to see what the [[OSM Server Side Script]] is returning
for each one:

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

in this case, the only state information seems to be in the "Is_In"
tag on the city boundary



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:23 AM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I put a wrapper around the rather
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>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script
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>> tell you which town/county/state/country something is in:
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> I haven't looked at the script but it doesn't cope well with US locations at all...
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> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=40.75&lon=-74
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> 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.
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> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/WhatCountry/?lat=-33.87&lon=151.21
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