>> This will fail if: >> * there are more then 1 place-nodes in the bounding box > > Why not automatically choose the closest place.
Possible. What you get is the dreaded "<street> near <city>". You don't get a defined getCityForStreet(<street>) that is guaranteed to return a correct result if it returns a non-null result. Lets face it. Everyone else manages this (tomtom, google, garmin, ....) but city-limits, country-limits and zip-codes in OSM are a mess and in desperate need of repair. >> * the city is too large the the node is not in the bounding-box >> * the location does not belong to the city but the center of some village >> is nearby > > Yes, then again with any such "reverse gazeteer" you need to choose an > arbitrary distance to decide what point is "in the city" and what is > outside. Some localities have an associated landuse=residential. That should be a polygon tagged as place=(city|village|...), name=<name>. It often coincides with a landuse but landuse is a rendered area and a city is made up of many, one or no such areas while it has exactly one circumsizing polygon. Marcus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
