On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Gerrit <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 31.07.2011 20:27, schrieb Richard Weait: >> >> You probably don't want to use the API for this, as it would likely be >> an abuse of the editing API resources. Have a look at XAPI and >> similar read-only APIs for this sort of data request. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi >> >> This is a quick request against your own local rendering DB. So you >> might want to set up your own db and remove reliance on an external >> service. My quick search found ~6000 city points, and ~16000 city >> polygons, world wide. > > Well actually I want to upload it again. The number of cities in the region > I want to download is limited, so I think I can handle it. The problem is > just that I would like to have it in a list-like fashion, so that I can just > work it from top to bottom, without any other nodes. I could do that with an > ordinary search in JOSM, i guess, but there still remains the problem to > download everything at first. > But I guess Xapi looks nice for that. I’ll give it a try. Thanks!
Something similar has been partially automated, sort-of. Perhaps you can build on the multi-lingual country list? It would be wonderful to extend it to states / provinces, cities, etc. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Jun_20 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
