12 Sep
2009
12 Sep
'09
11:58 a.m.
On Sep 11, 2009, at 23:05, Chris Miller wrote:
The approach I'm currently looking at is using a geonames file (eg cities15000.zip) from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ to decide which country and city is the most predominant one in each tile.
I tried this out on an extract of Europe. It worked pretty well; of the 234 tiles in my map, 5 had no entry in the cities15000 file. Four of the tiles were in Italy (Largest centers according to the GeoNames Web service: Codroipo, Maniago, Tavagnacco, Cervignano del Friuli, ), and one was in Slovenia (Podhom). This is good enough for my purposes. Cheers.