Wikipedia sometimes helps when trying to categorise stuff: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Category:Capitals_of_republics_of_Russia
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Russia_by_population The individual articles also normally start with "x is a (city|town|village) in ___" in bold text at the top, which might be automatically searchable (e.g. there is a MediaWiki module in Perl that makes it easy to get the wikisource of a page) On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Upliner Mikhalych <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to import populated place names from vmap0 for some regions of Russia. > There are many blank areas in Russia without any data, so vmap0 data, > especially place names can be a quite good basis for these regions > (road network is better to trace using satellite imagery). > > I have already made conversion scripts. Only problem is that I haven't > found a way to determine place type (city, town, village, hamlet) in > vmap. > Approximate type of places can be guessed by satellite imagery, but > this can take a long time and still need specification. > So how imported points should be tagged? It is desirable that place > names will be rendered in Mapnik. > Have you any ideas? > > Sorry for by English > Best regards, > Upliner > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
