I was not using proximity(geolocation) to look up IDs for this. Most(I say most as some was from my geography lessons. Would that count as copyrighted material?) of the information came from the name and the osm node location (i.e. Berlin is in East Germany, in it’s own city-state, but most importantly in the middle-ish of Brandenburg state, same as I know London is South-Est UK and not a city near Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
I’ve been to Germany many times during my employment with my previous employer, so I know Germany well.