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I have a list of POIs, some with a full description and some with only a few data entries, like the following:

6.9441000   50.9242000  [50677] (Ital) Casa di Biase [Köln]
6.9373600   50.9291800  [50674] (Ital) Al Setaccio [Köln]

However, I need the full dataset. Can I get this somewhere? If I have all the position data, is it possible to find the rest?

  • a. name of the street
  • b. name of the town

So for example, the data should finally look like this:

10.5346100  52.1613600  [38300] (Chin) Wanbao Kommissstr.9 [Wolfenbüttel]
13.2832500  52.4422600  [14167] (Ital) LaPergola  Unter den Eichen 84d [Berlin]
13.3177700  52.5062900  [10625] (Chin) Good Friends  Kantstr.30 [Berlin]

Can I do this with OpenStreetMap? Should I parse OpenStreetMap data? Or OpenBabel?

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I haven't tested it personally (as I would use a Bing Maps REST API for that), but gisgraphy sounds like it might be what you're looking for because it would provide you with an API to make searches using both OpenStreetMap and Geonames datasets.

Gisgraphy is a free, open source framework that offers the possibility to do geolocalisation and geocoding via Java APIs or REST webservices. Because geocoding is nothing without data, it provides an easy to use importer that will automagically download and import the necessary (free) data to your local database (Geonames and OpenStreetMap : 42 million entries). You can also add your own data with the Web interface or the importer connectors provided. Gisgraphy is production ready, and has been designed to be scalable(load balanced), performant and used in other languages than just java : results can be output in XML, JSON, PHP, Python, Ruby, YAML, GeoRSS, and Atom. One of the most popular GPS tracking System (OpenGTS) also includes a Gisgraphy client...read more .

Source: http://code.google.com/p/gisgraphy/

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