On 28/11/2008 12:02, Bernhard Zwischenbrugger wrote: > hi >> and New Delhi is not shown at all >> >> > There were some bugs with spaces, commas,... (urlencode) > They are fixed now. > > There are still some problems. > > The capitals come from this list > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals > > The name of the city is given to namefinder. > The first item namefinder returns is displayed on the map.
I think that's an invalid assumption that the first item is necessarily a capital city of that name. As someone pointed out, capital cities are usually marked as such in the tags, and I should take note of that and let you make your search more efficient. However, if we start applying similar techniques to state captials or other hierarchies, a search inferred from a loose syntax will not be enough and I need to provide a more formal way for mechanical clients to constrain their searches. As it stands "city" is ambiguous - it is both a category and part of some names (to wit, "Mexico City"). > At the moment there are problems with: > > Paris - wrong Paris found As I said, they're both cities and at present I have nothing to distinguish them. <aside>I am always irritated by online Yellow Pages which asks me every time which Cambridge I want - the big city or the tiny hamlet in Gloucestershire. Surely they could give me Cambridge city and say "click here for the lesser Cambridge" which almost no one would want</aside> > London - missing (found an other London) > Washington, D.C. - not found The comma is a bit of syntax for namefinder. Also state abbreviations (OK, DC's it's not a state exactly, but it has the same role here) are not stored anywhere in OSM data. I hope to improve this in due course, and as I said, is_in tags would help enormously. But in the end, the name of the place is "Washington", not "Washington, D.C." is it not? You don't ask for "Canberra, NSW" do you (sorry if it's not in NSW, just a guess)? > Mexico City - not exact Cuidad de Mexico? doesn't seem to have a name:en tag. (You could add one; ditto Havana). > N'Djamena (Chad) - found in france only because there isn't apparently any place on the map with that name, and there is a street. > Honiara - not found > Kuwait City - not found > Melekeok (Palau) - not found > Palikir (Mikronesia) - not found > Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - not found > Naypyidaw (Myanmar) - not found > South Tarawa (Kiribati) - not found > Sri Jayawardenepura( Sri Lanke) - not found > Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) - not found > Yaren (Nauru) -not found Are these simply because they aren't on the map, or should I look at them for problems? David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
