Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-25 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: I find this annoying as well. I believe it happens because (at least here in the US) cities are mapped twice. Once using a node in the center of the city and once using the administrative boundary multipolygon relation.

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-24 Thread Toby Murray
I find this annoying as well. I believe it happens because (at least here in the US) cities are mapped twice. Once using a node in the center of the city and once using the administrative boundary multipolygon relation. I'm guessing the nodes exist because some tools don't know how to deal with

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Give it a try, I will put the source in SVN if you want to get your hands dirty with this. http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/mvexel/nominatim/ Cool. Speaking of things that bug us, I hate the way that when you search for a

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-15 Thread Wyo
Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, The lack of auto-complete or search suggestions like you see in for example Google (maps) and the OSM wiki search box has been bugging me for a while. So I created a prototype based on the Nominatim API and the Google Closure JS framework. There's a lot of things

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Wyo, No specific reason. It looked like the quickest route to demonstrable results for someone not at all familiar with modern web technologies such as myself. And it did - I did this in a few hours, including the PHP script that calls Nominatim and parses the result. Martijn van Exel +++

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Wyo, No specific reason. It looked like the quickest route to demonstrable results for someone not at all familiar with modern web technologies such as myself. And it did - I did this in a few hours, including the PHP script that calls Nominatim and parses the result. Martijn van Exel +++

[OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, The lack of auto-complete or search suggestions like you see in for example Google (maps) and the OSM wiki search box has been bugging me for a while. So I created a prototype based on the Nominatim API and the Google Closure JS framework. There's a lot of things it won't do yet, but it's

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce search box with result suggestions

2010-11-05 Thread Claudius
Am 05.11.2010 17:21, Martijn van Exel: Hi all, The lack of auto-complete or search suggestions like you see in for example Google (maps) and the OSM wiki search box has been bugging me for a while. So I created a prototype based on the Nominatim API and the Google Closure JS framework. There's