I’d like to get a simple list of all cities - I imagine that
osmfilter south-america-latest.o5m --keep-nodes="place=municipality =borough =suburb =locality =city =town =village =hamlet" --drop-relations --drop-ways --ignore-dependencies > south-america_cities.osm
should be complete - assuming that every city has a place=city node (or the like) ; but maybe there are cities where a boundary way (or relation) is defined and no node has been separately defined . Is this possible?
The query on south america generated 231k nodes.