Hi everyone,
As you might know I uploaded 250.000 images from http://www.geograph.org.uk/ to Wikimedia Commons. Of course these images need to be categorized. For this I use reverse geocoding : I know coordinates of the location, I just need to know the name of the location. I used http://ws.geonames.org/extendedFindNearby for this (worked at that time, seems to be down at the moment). Results seem to be pretty good, but some more accurate results would be nice.
Someone had already pointed out to me that I could use the reverse geocoding feature of Nominatim (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim) to categorize images at Commons. I just implemented it and this tool seems to catch a lot of images in the overcrowded categories. Would it be possible to set up a local copy of this tool at the OSM toolserver?
Maarten