[OSM-talk] Most complete cities and administrative divisions database

[SomeoneElse]

On 26/01/2011 15:53, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> For instance, the geonames project (http://www.geonames.org/) provides 
> over 7 million POI, and 2 million of them are cities.
How many of them are vaguely close to the correct location though?  I 
tried a few local (UK) village names.  About half weren't found, and 
none of the others were close enough to their actual location to be useful.

So I'd switch _from_ geonames for that reason alone.

Cheers,
Andy