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Is it possible to query open street map locations based on a WOEID?

See here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:woeid

Update: Also, I have lots of different place names, and I need to translate them into about 10 different locales. Because I know the WOEID for each location, I was thinking that I could just query OSM to achieve this (if the OSM item has WOEID information too). Some of the locales are in the aliases for GeoPlanet, but quite a lot of them aren't as an alias, so I need to find a better way of translating them.

asked 15 Nov '13, 12:12

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edited 15 Nov '13, 12:24


No, this is not directly possible. As you can see via taginfo the woeid tag has been used only 73 times so far. Usually we don't keep references between our objects and other databases, with a few exceptions. If you really need this information you can try to create these references automatically for yourself by comparing tags and the rough location. But please don't import this information back into our database.

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answered 15 Nov '13, 13:16

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Thanks for the information. :)

(15 Nov '13, 13:21) Layke

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