On 31/08/2010 11:44, Andy Allan wrote:
Secondly, remember that we're an open-source, volunteer project kind of thing, so have appropriate expectations! If the server had stopped working and nobody was interested in fixing it, then you'd have had zero notice. On the other hand, if you have someone who's interested in running the namefinder service, and have the hardware and hosting to do so, then you have more than the OSM project has on all counts and that would be great!
I should add that independently of the server on which it was running, the namefinder index hadn't been updated in over 2 years. I tried very hard last summer and the rate of increase of OSM data defeated me. It needs some serious work to make it viable again in an environment where the data volume is 10x more than it was when I first wrote it, time which I didn't have, and also I didn't see the point when nominatim provided essentially that rewrite.
If someone wanted to write a gateway just to convert formats, I imagine we could resurrect the gazetteer URL pointing at the Nominatim server. Andy's right about embedding URLs, but that's too late for you unfortunately.
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