2010/4/5 Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>nl>:
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?
Do you think this needs to be dynamic, or is it a one-time effort?
When shown your post, the nominatim author, Brian Quinion, said to me
on IRC (he is twain47 on
irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm) that 250k lookups
are no problem if spread out over a few days. Unless you were after
local control of the tool.
He also offered help setting it up if needed.
Cheers
Colin