Hakan Tandogan wrote: > On Tue, June 24, 2008 17:13, Phil Endecott wrote: >> So I was wondering whether anyone here knows how I could improve on >> this, i.e. >> >> - Is there an "improved" version somewhere with more ranking >> information in it? > > www.geonames.org ? They aggregate lots of data sources and tend to have > more "place" nodes in remote areas of the world.
Thanks; I'll have a look. I thought it was basically the same as the NGA data. >> - Is there equivalent data in the OSM database, with rankings of some > sort, that I could extract a dump of? > > You could parse the is_in tags / relations. > > In general, you found one of our bigger unsolved problems ;-) The slippy map seems to do a good-enough job of choosing which city names to display on a zoomed-out map. How does it do that? Phil. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
