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 _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
