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Open Street Map how to get city based on street?

How are the nodes id connected to the city? The streets which are directly connected to the city a very few. Most of the streets are not connected to anything. However each street is connected to a node. Is there a way to extract the city or suburb based only on the streets information? Like NodeIds, longitude, latitude etc.?

city reversegeocoding street

asked 19 Nov '18, 19:19

Muntean Octa...
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edited 19 Nov '18, 21:32

aseerel4c26 ♦
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One Answer:

City based only on longitude, latitude? What you mean is called "reverse geocoding". See

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frameworks#Forward_and_reverse_geocoding and
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Reverse_Geocoding
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Geocoding (e.g. Photon also can do reverse geocoding) and, of course,
https://help.openstreetmap.org/tags/reversegeocoding/?sort=mostvoted

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answered 19 Nov '18, 21:32

aseerel4c26 ♦
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edited 25 Nov '18, 14:52