Hi Martijn,
Worthless.. worthless.. if you don't know how to program php, it may
seem that way, yes. :-P
I took a look at the code and personally, I don't see a problem of
getting this nice easy piece of software to work for a dutch
situation. I forked the project on github already. The most
Neat and potentially very useful. I wonder how well it translates to non-US
/ non-urban spatial contexts. Take our local situation here in Amsterdam.
The street layout is completely different – hence all the clueless American
tourists on every street corner ;) – and people are not thinking in
It could easilly be expanded to how addresses are described in Brazil, but than
it must import more than street names. I.e. Avenida Jones Santos Neves infront
of Casas Bahia (large chain of furniture and home equipment stores), or the
hill next to Bradesco (bank).
Aun Y. Johnsen
Sent from my
I just looked at the Flickr alpha shapes (which saw a new release recently)
but basically for Amsterdam it's worthless. Not enough resolution. My guess
is that one could do better things with the huge amount of metadata that
they have.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Martijn van Exel
Mike Frumin put together a neat service that generates human-readable names
based on nearby OSM ways:
http://frumin.net/ation/2011/04/openstreetblock.html
I makes strings like 14th St between 6th Ave and 7th Ave, currently just for
NYC data.
-mike.
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