2010/4/5 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.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