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

Hello,

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?

Thanks for help.

geodata cities free capital

asked 16 Sep '10, 13:26

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2 Answers:

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

0	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`. answered 16 Sep '10, 19:33 petschge 8.3k●21●73●98 accept rate: 21% edited 16 Sep '10, 20:14 Jonathan Ben... 8.3k●17●85●108