Some of you might be interested in an early-stages project I've released called Fetegeo, which is essentially a place name search engine:
http://fetegeo.org/ Fetegeo is similar to the OSM Name Finder in many respects, but not identical. For example, it's intended to be relatively permissive in the input formats it accepts, usable in a wider range of contexts (in two senses: technologically it's in Python and can be used as a program library, a server etc.; practically it's intended to also be usable for things like classifying places into groups), be relatively independent from its data source (it currently uses mostly Geonames data, for breadth; one day I'd love to see it use OSM, for depth and accuracy), be relatively customisable (it's not a particularly big or tricky code base). Fetegeo is very much a 0.1 release, so there are probably bugs and oversights galore. However it's free (released under an MIT licence) and, having scratched my particular itch, I'm putting it out there in case other people find something interesting in it and wish to play with it. There's a public git repository, and a simple demo of using it to locate places on an OSM map (hence why I thought those on the OSM lists might be interested). Laurie -- http://tratt.net/laurie/ -- Personal http://fetegeo.org/ -- Free text geocoding http://convergepl.org/ -- The Converge programming language _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
