> One would think that getting all of the capitals tagged would be easy, > however going and grabbing it from sites linked to google I'm assuming would > almost certainly be a no no. > > Can we use information from wikipedia? > > For example. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals > > If I can use that, then I can find all the capitals, and just tag them.
How about geonames database - is that usable? A quick scan shows 142,000 locations with population data (accuracy unknown!). There are also feature codes to define which locations are major cities, etc. country_code | ansiname | latitude | longitude | population | feature_code --------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+------------+-------------- GB | Abbotts Ann | 51.183333300 | -1.516666700 | 2112 | PPL GB | Aberaeron | 52.250000000 | -4.250000000 | 1537 | PPLA GB | Abercanaid | 51.723611100 | -3.366111100 | 5061 | PPL GB | Abercarn | 51.647222200 | -3.136944400 | 10118 | PPL GB | Aberchirder | 57.550000000 | -2.616666700 | 1159 | PPL GB | Aberdare | 51.715000000 | -3.454166700 | 32756 | PPL GB | Aberdeen | 57.133333300 | -2.100000000 | 183790 | PPLA GB | Aberdour | 56.050000000 | -3.300000000 | 1742 | PPL GB | Aberfeldy | 56.616666700 | -3.850000000 | 1937 | PPL GB | Aberfoyle | 56.183333300 | -4.383333300 | 577 | PPL -- Brian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
