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City labels

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Hi,

Is there some way how to get all city labels in country and it's coordinates to further use?

Thanks

asked 06 Feb '12, 10:12

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Yes (download country extract, use osmosis or osmfilter to extract place nodes). But you will probably find it easier to get these from http://www.geonames.org/ where they are presented in a simpler and more structured form.

answered 06 Feb '12, 10:45

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edited 06 Feb '12, 10:46

Source code available on GitHub .