I'm sure if you make a 'use case' for adding the data they would consider calculating a bbox. I asked about for a project I was working on and Marc said he could add it, but it turned out that that I didnt need it so never persued it...
Barry
On 08/11/06, Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Geonames is a *really* nice service for looking up geographic
locations of entities. However, it doesn't currently support getting
the approximate size, bounding area, or outline of that entity. Any
service I've seen just does some central point, and doesn't
differentiate between city, region, country, continent.
For example, it would be nice to say "California" and either get the
bounds or some rough polygon of the outline of california.
What kind of services out there, hopefully as easy as Geonames, would
provide that kind of info.
Thanks,
Andrew
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