[OSM-talk] is there an open database of places?

[Patrick Aljord]

Hey all,

I was reading something about that [1] the other day and I was
wondering whether OSM had something like that. I know OSM already has
lots of POI on its maps but it only has the most common ones. Would it
make sense to have a seperate DB that would store all places? Is there
already a project that does that?

Cheers,

Pat

1: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/08/place-database/