honestly, of all the place databases out there, none of them fit our needs.
none of them have the combination of unrestrictive licensing + data and IDs
for countries going down to neighborhoods (arbitrarily sized things) + have
the ability for creation, updating, etc. we are building something that
will be available through the API that the entire ecosystem can use (and,
not just for tweeting), so its a fairly unique set of constraints.
Hmm doesn't OSM contain sufficient data to actually be turned into a
place database?
I'm thinking administrative boundaries et al.
Mathias.
