Hi, > Thing is: is there > anything we need that LDAP does not give us?
Let me ask the other way round: What are the cool things that LDAP *does* give us and where it saves us time compared to do something ourselves? I believe that the major complexity in the name finder is that "real language" user queries have to be matched to what is in the data base. This means something like 1. process the query and try to find out what user wants (is it "pubs near <street>" or "<village> in <country>" or "<street>,<town>" or "<town>,<street>" or ...) 2. query the database and see what you find 3. if result looks sub-optimal, goto 1, this time trying another interpretation. Any mechanism that imposes a strict sequence (1. analyze query, 2. make database request, 3. return results) without letting actual database contents influence the query analyze step is probably too simple to solve our needs. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
