On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:55 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/03/2008 19:31, OJ W wrote:
Is it doing anything with the multilingual names in OSM (name:de=... and
similar)?
Yes, that should have been on my list in the previous message.
This always was included. e.g. try
David Earl wrote:
It's a hard call. I did do a kind of weighting in the where am I
feature to give a reasonable spread of places of different kinds -
though again Tom hasn't implemented this in quite the same way on the
home page.
I agree that it's a hard call (and trade-off). Also, I
On 27/03/2008 09:07, Stefan Baebler wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:55 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/03/2008 19:31, OJ W wrote:
Is it doing anything with the multilingual names in OSM (name:de=... and
similar)?
Yes, that should have been on my list in the previous
On 27/03/2008 10:56, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
I wonder whether some context can be drawn in from whether there is a
administrative city boundary or residential landuse area surrounding a
street. But this would of course increase the parsing complexity a lot,
I guess.
It's a whole different
I have in mind a piece of work I'm loosely calling finding the urban
envelope which would analyse areas based on highway=residential and
abutters, where present, and other relevant clues, to heuristically
determine contiguous settlements.
Hee. That's a nice idea, but I fear it would call
David Earl wrote:
Suggestions
for addressing this welcome - incrementally returning results is one
possibility I guess. You can qualify it ..., UK (provided the is_in is
present - which is almost never is for US places), but that's non-obvious.
I strongly suspect Google Maps either only
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sven Grüner wrote:
That brought up another question to my mind, which isn't related
to the name finder in particular: Is there any agreement on how
to tag abreviated place names? When there's the 'Volkswagen
plant'
On 26/03/2008, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sven Grüner wrote:
That brought up another question to my mind, which isn't related
to the name finder in particular: Is there any agreement on how
to tag abreviated place names? When there's the 'Volkswagen
plant' people would
On 25/03/2008 21:18, David Earl wrote:
On 25/03/2008 21:00, David Earl wrote:
On 25/03/2008 20:53, Thomas Wood wrote:
The namefinder still seems to fail with: St Paul's Cathedral
(apostrophe as copied pasted from the British Museum blog post)
Oh perversity! They've put a rsquo on their web
On 26/03/2008 01:43, Sven Grüner wrote:
Colin Marquardt schrieb:
Since we have people's attention: please everybody extend
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder:Abbreviations
That brought up another question to my mind, which isn't related to the
name finder in particular: Is
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It uses name, then place_name (but only when name is not given),
then ref, iata, icao, old_name, and loc_name as if these were
in square brackets after the name as described above. Hence
name=Archway Road; ref=A5;
On 26/03/2008 15:33, David Earl wrote:
In your case, Zürichstrasse is apparently closer to Wallisellen than
Dübendorf, so I'm afraid that's the point of reference you get in the
expanded context. Name finder is based entirely on proximity; I'd need a
reliable set of boundary information
Is it doing anything with the multilingual names in OSM (name:de=... and
similar)?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:name
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 26/03/2008 01:43, Sven Grüner wrote:
What about 'short_name', just to make that *_name
On 26/03/2008 19:31, OJ W wrote:
Is it doing anything with the multilingual names in OSM (name:de=... and
similar)?
Yes, that should have been on my list in the previous message.
This always was included. e.g. try searching for Cologne and Köln (or Koln)
David
I'm pleased to say that after a major overhaul of the name finder to
make it possible to update incrementally, and also a move to a different
server (many thanks to Tom for helping set this up), the Name Finder and
home page search box are now working again with a bang up to date index.
The Name
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:41 PM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
- All combinations of apostrophe s, singular and plural should now work
(previously it worked if it was mapped with 's and searched without, but
not vice-versa).
- We now get 100% on the British Museum Test for
On 25/03/2008 20:53, Thomas Wood wrote:
The namefinder still seems to fail with: St Paul's Cathedral
(apostrophe as copied pasted from the British Museum blog post)
Odd - it worked yesterday when I tried it. I'll investigate.
I can't get through at all at the moment - presumably everyone is
On 25/03/2008 21:00, David Earl wrote:
On 25/03/2008 20:53, Thomas Wood wrote:
The namefinder still seems to fail with: St Paul's Cathedral
(apostrophe as copied pasted from the British Museum blog post)
Odd - it worked yesterday when I tried it. I'll investigate.
I can't get through at
David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm pleased to say that after a major overhaul of the name finder to
make it possible to update incrementally, and also a move to a different
server (many thanks to Tom for helping set this up), the Name Finder and
home page search box are now working
Sven Grüner wrote:
That brought up another question to my mind, which isn't related
to the name finder in particular: Is there any agreement on how
to tag abreviated place names? When there's the 'Volkswagen
plant' people would also search for 'VW plant'. Obviously no
application like
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