[OSM-talk] Reverse look-up gazetteer

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/3/19 paul youlten <paul at yellowikis.org>:
> Does anyone know if there is there a web service that lets me take the
> latitude and longitude of a node and establish which country,
> state/county/province, city and Zip/post code the node is in?

I don't know of a specific web service but it turns out using the
usual API you can find the city name quite easily, I first saw it done
in the party render script:
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/party/render.py .
The post code and other data you would have to pull from somewhere
else as OSM doesn't store those except for a few places now.

Cheers