Joachim

drew my attention to Openstreetmap.org. So I thought I’d give it a try. Unfortunately the don’t seem to have the hardware or bandwidth resources yet for everyday use.

Search results for “München”:

City München [en:Munich], about 70km south of Ingolstadt Village München, about 4km south-west of Bad Berka Region München, about 1km north of Unterbiberg, Unterhaching München [en:Munich], less than 1km south of München […]

Very funny. München (Munich) itself has 1.3 Million, Ingolstadt about 120k inhabitants. The region around München totals to about 3-5 Million inhabitants, depending on what you consider to be part of the region. But Unterbiberg (13k) and Unterhaching (22k) are officially part of the district of Munich.

The best specification however is the fourth one: If Munich is south of Munich, Munich is also north of Munich, right? So Munich is everywhere, right?

Other search highlights include a Footway “train platform direction Munich”.

Nevertheless, the search results make sense, the first result is what I had in mind, and I really like the references they give for each search result.

I wonder if when you type in “San Francisco” it will be like “San Francisco, north of South San Francsico” (no, it’s “north of Daly City”)