Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:04 +0200, Michael Willigens mich...@willigens.de wrote: Hey, i have thought about that last night, Its sounds a bit odd but it would be possible to use an LDAP server for GeoNaming lookups. We could create a canonical, hirachical scheme and fill in any named

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Willigens
Zitat von marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:04 +0200, Michael Willigens mich...@willigens.de wrote: Hey, i have thought about that last night, Its sounds a bit odd but it would be possible to use an LDAP server for GeoNaming lookups. We could create a canonical,

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:52:25 +0200, Michael Willigens mich...@willigens.de wrote: yep, your right for the query part. but i think we need placeholder in the server datastructure anyway to make it work. anyway, i have made good experiences with LDAP using huge datasets. Thing is: is there

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Willigens
Hey, i have thought about that last night, Its sounds a bit odd but it would be possible to use an LDAP server for GeoNaming lookups. We could create a canonical, hirachical scheme and fill in any named Objects. Correctly implemented LDAP is several times faster than MySQL in naming lookups

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Willigens
woops, in my noobish opinin i was thinking that any object must fit the whole schema which isnt true. so you are right. : michael Zitat von marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:52:25 +0200, Michael Willigens mich...@willigens.de wrote: yep, your right for the query part.

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Thing is: is there anything we need that LDAP does not give us? Let me ask the other way round: What are the cool things that LDAP *does* give us and where it saves us time compared to do something ourselves? I believe that the major complexity in the name finder is that real language

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:09:30 +0200, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Thing is: is there anything we need that LDAP does not give us? Let me ask the other way round: What are the cool things that LDAP *does* give us and where it saves us time compared to do something

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: I disagree with the have to. A new implementation can have a form with inputs for country, city, ..., housenumber and an optional select amenityNearby Well yes but that would not be something than can replace the old namefinder, that would be an

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Willigens
Zitat von Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Hi, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: I disagree with the have to. A new implementation can have a form with inputs for country, city, ..., housenumber and an optional select amenityNearby Well yes but that would not be something than can

Re: [OSM-dev] implemented API for J2SE and J2ME (NameFinder Client API)

2009-04-21 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Michael Willigens mich...@willigens.de wrote: should not be a problem to support this. abbrevate the objects before indexing: highways:  filter: ave, street, way, strasse, straße etc. same goes for cities and towns. LDAP supports wildcard queries for the rest