2010/4/6 Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>:
> 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.

Dynamic in the sense of "do you think lookups will be done over and
over again", as opposed to a static "do a lookup once for each image
and store the result".

> Great. With the current setup we have at the Toolserver, what would have
> to be done?

I haven't done this myself, but take a look at the archives of
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding to see what people
wrote about the process (apart from the regular Nominatim docs).

Cheers
  Colin

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