How to extract Geographic data from open street map or Google maps

Posted by Ramesh Vel on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Ramesh Vel
Published on 2010-04-15T06:36:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 6:43 UTC
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Hi,

i need to retrieve all the city names from a specific country using openstreet map or google maps. is there any API available?

or is there any other way of getting this world geographic data?

Cheers

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