Nic Roets wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, David Earl <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > i.e. everything with a name (or other identifier like ref), which is all > the useful ones. (Of course we already have URLs by number for every > node, way and relation in the system, though those aren't usually > exposed to search engines, and they include vast duplication, e.g. for > streets with the same name split into multiple ways. They are useful for > data scrutiny but not really for search engines). > > > I don't know what you are planning, but this is what I have in mind : > > Create a web page (html) for every city and town. Generate a header with > info like the country it's in. Find all the suburbs and hamlets that are > nearest to it and create a link for each one. > > Create a web page for every suburb, village and hamlet. Create a link to > the nearest city or town in bold (if there are multiple cities at the > same distance, create multiple links. Find all the streets that are > closest to this suburb and create links for each one. The same goes for > amenities. > > I think Google will index such pages. They already index a lot of > garbage, like web proxy access logs, spreadsheets with address lists etc.
That's almost exactly what I'm planning. I'll post some screen shots in due course. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
