Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > Google's apis limit you to 1000 searches / day, so that's ... a long > time :-)
The Ajax search API has no such limit: http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/api_faq.html#gen12 > Another possibility is that we could spider websites that turn up > frequently in the Google results, or that we know have a lot of > addresses on, but this is likely to be close to the bone in copyright of > those sites. Indeed. I think we are in the clear if we just search on each postcode and use whatever sites turn up. > The other option is to try to guess the addresses of places, then do a > forward search for those addresses, and pull the postcodes out of that. > With my very limited testing, this is successful, but usually only gets > one postcode per street, where most streets have at least 2 postcodes - > often more. That's fine to begin with. If we get to a stage where you type "YO11 2TT" into OSM, and it immediately takes you to the area covered by YO11 2T?, then that would be a big improvement. Yet another possibility is to get people to do all the addresses in their address book. If we can teach people to munge their address book into CSV or similar, and thence to one line per address, we can use namefinder on the non-postcode part and ask them to check and click. This has the advantage that each person who uploads their address book may well have visited the places in it. > Of course, if we are evaluating all postcodes, it would be useful to > keep the list of road names that are not found, along with roughly where > they are (from the first part of the postcode + first digit of the > second part). This would provide a useful way to find roads that need to > be mapped. Good point. Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
