This got some nice coverage yesterday on ReadWriteWeb: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_opengeocoder_fill_the_platform_gap_left_by_goo.php
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Stephen Lead <[email protected]>wrote: > Great idea. I like the simplicity. > > > Some guidance about synonyms and homonyms is needed really early on. I > don’t want to add Reading, "Reading, England", "Reading, Berkshire, > England, UK" etc. and then worry about other Readings. > > Could you post-process the submitted bboxes and append county, state and > country information? Or prompt the user to add these as the bboxes are > entered? > > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Laurence Penney <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Interesting idea. Scary number of man-hours till it’s comparable with >>> OSM/Nominatim or Wikipedia. Just a couple of quick notes: >>> >>> Some guidance about synonyms and homonyms is needed really early on. I >>> don’t want to add Reading, "Reading, England", "Reading, Berkshire, >>> England, UK" etc. and then worry about other Readings. Currently I cannot >>> even duplicate existing bboxes to achieve this stuff. Without this it feels >>> too much of a toy to spend more than 5 mins with. >>> >>> The worker bees deserve high-level public reassurance on the PD-ability >>> of the project from MS. If suits at some point decide/discover the imagery >>> is not PD after all, the project’s wrecked. >>> >>> Of course if people enjoy it there’ll be demand not just for arbitrary >>> polygons and lines, but also tags and a renderer :-) >>> >>> - L >>> >>> On 16 Feb 2012, at 23:23, Steve Coast wrote: >>> >>> > Hi >>> > >>> > I figured this is a good group to give a peek at something I worked on >>> last month: >>> > >>> > http://opengeocoder.net/ >>> > >>> > The premise is that a typical geocoder uses a large chunk of code to >>> import a large database in to a large geocodable database. Then another >>> large chunk of code is used to actually take a string and geocode it >>> against this large imported dataset. At the end of all of this all you’re >>> typically doing is showing some bbox for some string like “London” which >>> the user typed in. >>> > >>> > What if we did away with all that? >>> > >>> > Therefore opengeocoder is a simple list of strings and matching >>> bounding boxes. It has a trivial interface to let you add or fix existing >>> geocodes. It has an API on the side to provide results to 3rd party sites. >>> If it is unable to help you with a query then that string is saved and >>> available for anyone to later fix. >>> > >>> > The major differentiators against other sites are that the IP >>> licensing is clear, all bboxes are derived from imagery we have rights to, >>> the bbox & string data is put in the Public Domain. It’s trivial to use. >>> The API saves misses for later fixing. It’s hard to find a site that does 2 >>> or 3 of those. >>> > >>> > Assuming this is interesting, there are multiple possible future >>> directions. Bootstrap with some PD data, allow points as well as boxes, >>> allow more complex polygons, a stronger API than just a JSON endpoint. >>> > >>> > Feedback welcome. >>> > >>> > Steve >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Geowanking mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geowanking mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sen Xu >> Ph.D Candidate >> Department of Geography, GeoVISTA Center, 302 Walker Building >> Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 >> http://senxu.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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