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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.

asked 16 Sep '10, 13:26

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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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There is a Geonames Web Service that allows you to download cities. This is probably better suited for solving your problem than OSM.

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answered 16 Sep '10, 14:06

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