On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:31:52 -0400 Evan Prodromou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Keith Erskine wrote: > > > This looks good, but I'd like to add one thing to the list. If you > > enter a location that isn't in the GeoNames database, how do you > > have the member provide the needed information. > > That's a big question. First, Geonames has great coverage down to the > city level and, as you noted, even for neighborhoods and major > landmarks in lots of cities. > > But it doesn't get down to street addresses or business names. I > think there are some other (free for use) databases that cover those > things. Not sure about how to reach them or if they've got Web APIs. > I'm in the OSM community, but don't know a lot about their namefinder service. It looks like at least part of your picture: http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/ It has anything named, but seemingly not the Cask'n'Flagon. Perhaps I need to escape the apostrophes somehow or use a variant spelling. OSM certainly has pubs, though. Try "arms" or "firkin" as searches. Other business names, too, though personally I rarely map them while streets still need naming. It seems it can be used as a web service: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder#XML_interface I imagine a federated search with this and geonames (and possibly others) would be ideal for laconica. It's important to note that I think OSM would probably want a popular implementation of laconica (like especially identi.ca) to run their own instance of this service and not use their stretched resources. Please do the usual right thing. > So my first approximation is: we punt on the Cask'n'Flagon for 0.9.x > and fine-tune afterwards. > I'm not sure what "punt" means in this context. Is that en-CA? :~) Cheers _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
