Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-31 Thread Brian Quinion
Preliminary results of the British Museum Test: http://povesham.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/the-british-museum-test-for-public-mapping-websites/ Thanks for all this - very interesting results. I'll work my way through them and track down the reasons for the various errors. The duplication is to

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Brian Quinionopenstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: The one I've been working on (suggestions for a name for the project gratefully received off list BTW) is mostly functional.  I was expecting to open it for testing on the geocoding list some time next week

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Quinion wrote: As promised, you can try a uk test system here: http://katie.openstreetmap.org/~twain/ And a couple of sample queries: http://katie.openstreetmap.org/~twain/?q=london

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Beyond getting the index updated using the existing technology, my next step is to try using postgres instead of mysql to (hopefully) increase the search speed (I use self-joins a lot and these should be faster in

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Ed Avis
Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net writes: http://katie.openstreetmap.org/~twain/ Preliminary results of the British Museum Test: * National Gallery - No results found This is because it's tagged as 'National Gallery / National Portrait Gallery'. If they share the same physical

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/08/09 14:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Earlda...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Beyond getting the index updated using the existing technology, my next step is to try using postgres instead of mysql to (hopefully) increase the search speed (I

[OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Hi! Congracts everyone with amount of input OSM recieves this year. Volunteers join us every day and changesets grow in detaility and quality. However, there is one set back and those are two things - mapnik render and NameFinder. While mapnik slowly gains additional renders for POIs and stuff,

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread David Earl
On 26/08/2009 12:44, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Anyway, so far I have heard about two efforts of getting NameFinder running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one (done by David Earl) I have been trying to rebuild the index, but the first two attempts failed (well, the

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2009/8/26 Jonas Krückel o...@jonas-krueckel.de: Nestoria (Ed Freyfogle) also offered help for a new search/namefinder on SOTM. And Geocommons made their geocoding service open source. So maybe we should start a kind of working group who looks at all the offers and possibilities and then get

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread David Earl
On 26/08/2009 13:19, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: 2009/8/26 Jonas Krückel o...@jonas-krueckel.de: Nestoria (Ed Freyfogle) also offered help for a new search/namefinder on SOTM. And Geocommons made their geocoding service open source. So maybe we should start a kind of working group who looks at

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Quinion
running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one (done by David Earl) and second one is completely new effort (by Twain). The one I've been working on (suggestions for a name for the project gratefully received off list BTW) is mostly functional. I was expecting to open it

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Hughes
On 26/08/09 13:12, Jonas Krückel wrote: Nestoria (Ed Freyfogle) also offered help for a new search/namefinder on SOTM. And Geocommons made their geocoding service open source. So maybe we should start a kind of working group who looks at all the offers and possibilities and then get one

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Jonas Krückel
Am 26.08.2009 um 14:49 schrieb Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu: On 26/08/09 13:12, Jonas Krückel wrote: Nestoria (Ed Freyfogle) also offered help for a new search/namefinder on SOTM. And Geocommons made their geocoding service open source. So maybe we should start a kind of working group who

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, 2009/8/26 Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com: Anyway, so far I have heard about two efforts of getting NameFinder running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one (done by David Earl) and second one is completely new effort (by Twain). I started working on a different

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jonas Krückel wrote: Yep, sorry, I don't know why i missed that list, David already gave me a hint know. I will subscribe asap. I'm not on that list either (yet) so let me continue abusing talk: There's also an OpenSearch Suggestion Service by Wolfram Schneider wsc...@googlemail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Quinion
The one I've been working on (suggestions for a name for the project gratefully received off list BTW) is mostly functional.  I was expecting to open it for testing on the geocoding list some time next week when it has finished indexing the most recent planet import however given the timing