On 1 April 2010 22:40, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been playing with the Ordnance Survey 50k gazetteer to see if it > looks useful (very simple search tool > at http://maps2.webhop.net/openos/gaz/www/doSearch.php). > As a 'point of interest' database it does not have anywhere near as much in > it as OSM does, which is quite nice really, so it is less useful from that > point of view, so I probably won't bother extending the search tool to > display them on a map as I had intended. > It does have quite a lot of named hills, and farms which might not be in OSM > though, which could be useful for countryside mapping - would it be useful > if I were to do a query to look for things that are in that database, but > not the OSM one?
Could this potentially help with "is in" type searches for the times where our naive algorithms aren't good enough? Could at least help supplement Nominatim? -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
