Getting geodata of all capital cities and displaying it on a world map of open street map

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I need to display the the capital cities on a world map. This has to be done interactively in Flash. So I need the geodata of all capital countries. How can I get this geodata (longitude/latitude) from openstreetmap? Is this possible?

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0	There is a Geonames Web Service that allows you to download cities. This is probably better suited for solving your problem than OSM. permanent link answered 16 Sep '10, 14:06 Frederik Ramm ♦ 82.5k●92●720●1273 accept rate: 23%

You can download all nodes tagged with capital=yes from XAPI. If you want to be careful you can also check if they are also tagged with place=city.

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answered 16 Sep '10, 19:33

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edited 16 Sep '10, 20:14

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