2009/11/14 Brian Quinion <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Peter Childs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Looking at this the new Nominatim service seams to do 85% of what I >> need, and might do more at a pinch. (Only found the service when I >> logged into IRC tonight....) > > My hope is that in the fullness of time Nominatim can be extended to > provide some sort of directory or supplementary address information > export for osm. but at the moment I'm concentrating on the search > functionality. If anyone else would like to join it to work on this > aspect it would always be appreciated - I'm busy documenting what I've > done at the moment, although there is a long way still to go. > > One thing to say is that the address generation is fairly simplistic. > The addresses are mostly at the moment intended to provide context to > the search results and I'm fully aware that in a lot of cases they are > incorrect. Some of the techniques discusses in the thread above are > far more advanced! You can read a quick summary of how it currently > works here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Development_overview > > -- > Brian >
It gives a nice starting place, its not to say it can't be expanded and improved. But its better than starting with a clean sheet of paper than I thought I was. (And it will do most of what I need for the moment, I think.... But as always things can be improved, mainly through better and better data. In other-words its a good start and solves my problems for the time being. Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
