2011/6/14 Nuno Tavares nuno.tavares@wikimedia.pt:
Strainu,
We put a tool to manually fill in the gaps, where we use the technique of positioning as near as possible using municipaly, district, Portugal with gmaps API). If you're willing to manually fill in the coordinates, I can pass you the code (you should adapt it to you database schema, though): http://wlm.wikimedia.pt/tools/plist
As a quick start, I'd suggest you to get a dump of wikipedia and import some coordinates from templates like {{coord}}, etc, although the optimal would be to get lists from official sources....
Thanks for the offer Nuno. Unfortunately, at the moment I don't have the time to handle this. My preference would still be to use the OSM data, as I have all the villages there from official sources. I was merely pointing out that a generic solution might not work due to limitations in the data from different countries. I hope I'll get around to doing this before the contest. If I don't, well, too bad, I'll have to wait till next year :)
Strainu