Or, even IF there exists more than one intersetion between "xxx"-gatan and "yyy"-vägen in sweden, the number of intersections is heavily reduced compared to only all the "xxx-"gatan in Sweden.
/Tomas 2016-09-15 10:42 GMT+02:00 Pär Svensson <[email protected]>: > Hello, really cool project! > > One thing that seems to be missing is an understanding of the concept of > "korsningen bredgränd dragabrunnsgatan". Although there are several > "Bredgränd" in Sweden, there are only one that crosses another street > called "Dragabrunnsgatan", namely in Uppsala. > > Regards > /Pär > > > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Thomas Fischer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> my name is Thomas Fischer and I am a researcher and teacher at the >> University in Skövde (Högskolan i Skövde). >> >> In the past months, I have worked on a project that makes use of >> OpenStreetMap data to geolocate/georeference text phases as found in >> news paper articles or police reports. For example, if a news report >> is about a traffic accident on E20 near Vårgårda, the software's >> task is to identify the place were E20 passes closest to the city of >> Vårgårda. Similarly, if the report talks about Skolgatan, the >> software shall identify the right instance of a road of this name if >> the report names the municipality in the same input text. The >> software is designed specifically for Sweden (hierarchy of road >> names and administrative structures) and the Swedish language (stop >> words, for blacklisting certain terms, converting plural forms into >> singular, ...). >> >> A demonstrator of the resulting software is available at >> http://fish.research.nsa.his.se:9876/ >> >> The demonstrator's source code is available at GitHub: >> https://github.com/thomasfischer-his/pbflookup >> >> In my experience, the software is working already quite well. There >> are two main limitations: >> - Missing, inconsistent, or erroneous information in the underlying >> map data from OpenStreetMap (unfortunately) >> - Lack of a deeper textual analysis: Words are extracted as is from >> the input text, so the word 'vara' (to be) and the city of Vara >> are indistinguishable. >> >> The software is written in C++, but care has been taken for code >> quality by using static code checkers and tools like Coverity Scan >> or Valgrind. >> The project to develop this softwas was co-financed by >> Internetstiftelsen >> >> I am contacting this mailing list for two reasons. First, I would >> like to get some feedback such as error reports or ideas for >> extensions. >> Second, I would like to pursue this project further, so I am looking >> for cooperation partners that can (financially) support the project. >> Examples for cooperation partners can be app developers that want to >> make use of the JSON/XML interface, news agencies or newspapers that >> want to add the service of matching their articles to a map >> location, or governmental, regional, or municipal agencies that want >> to geolocate their own or citizens' reports (think of 112 calls or >> citizens reporting broken street lights). >> >> So, if you have an existing contact at an organization that may be >> interested, please forward this mail. If you personally interested >> in a cooperation, you can contact me directly, of course. >> >> Greetings from Skövde, Sweden, >> Thomas Fischer >> https://www.his.se/fish >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-se mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-se >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-se mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-se > >
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