Hi Colin, Colin Marquardt schreef: > 2010/4/5 Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>: > >> Someone had already pointed out to me that I could use the reverse >> geocoding feature of Nominatim >> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim) to categorize images at >> Commons. I just implemented it and this tool seems to catch a lot of >> images in the overcrowded categories. Would it be possible to set up a >> local copy of this tool at the OSM toolserver? >> > > Do you think this needs to be dynamic, or is it a one-time effort? > What do you consider dynamic? Tool should be set up and the backend database should be kept up to date.
> When shown your post, the nominatim author, Brian Quinion, said to me > on IRC (he is twain47 on irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm) that 250k lookups > are no problem if spread out over a few days. Unless you were after > local control of the tool. > I used the http://ws.geonames.org/ tool to find categories for the intital upload of the 250.000 images. I'm now using the OSM tool to find better categories for some of these images. Probably a couple of thousands a day. It's not that I want control, it's just that I think this tool would also be nice to have on the OSM toolserver. > He also offered help setting it up if needed. > Great. With the current setup we have at the Toolserver, what would have to be done? Maarten > Cheers > Colin > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
