> 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.
