Thanks for your quick reply Brian! I was talking about Nominatim indeed. > Is it possible to get the coordinates of the result (or even the > > geographical distance from the input coordinates)? > > The output could certainly be extended to include this fairly easily. > This information is calculated internally but not exposed. > > I think this would be very useful. If the output included the coordinates of the nearest city/town (or even the distance and the direction from it), then the client could use that information for non-built-up areas as "24 miles/km NW from Oakville" for example.
I am not sure how to decide if the position is in built-up area or not accoding to the output. > Can the country be determined for a position outside the "mapped" > > territories? (Maybe somebody has a method for using the data of the > > import_worldboundaries.sql script) > > That is a valid point. This used to be done and has been lost recently. > > Reenabling that feature would be nice as well. For my purposes a seperate db returning only the country would be perfect. How could I achive that? I am planning to make seperate databases for countries/regions. Regards, Gergő
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