Am 26.08.2009 um 13:44 schrieb Peteris Krisjanis <[email protected]>:
> Hi! > > Congracts everyone with amount of input OSM recieves this year. > Volunteers join us every day and changesets grow in detaility and > quality. However, there is one set back and those are two things - > mapnik render and NameFinder. While mapnik slowly gains additional > renders for POIs and stuff, people can't find anything newer than > January in NameFinder. I also think it is time to redesign it and make > default version more good looking. Yes, I know, commercial vendors are > here for selling services, but stil, as a geek, I contribute to OSM > and want to use OSM slippy map. > > Anyway, so far I have heard about two efforts of getting NameFinder > running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one > (done by David Earl) and second one is completely new effort (by > Twain). Nestoria (Ed Freyfogle) also offered help for a new search/namefinder on SOTM. And Geocommons made their geocoding service open source. So maybe we should start a kind of working group who looks at all the offers and possibilities and then get one running. Maybe this could also be one topic for a hacking session on wherecampeu. I would join a working group, who else is interested? Jonas > > How far both projects are? Is there anything someone with moderate > Linux/sysadmining/Python/Postgresql/whatever knowledge can help? > > Cheers, > Peter. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
