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    <p>Lukasz</p>
    <p>You can always use a photon instance for example
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://photon.komoot.de/">http://photon.komoot.de/</a> for searching.<br>
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    <p>Photon uses Elastic Search on ingested Nominatim data to provide
      search as you type and related functionality.</p>
    <p>Simon<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 06.08.2020 um 11:22 schrieb Lukasz
      Kruk:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hello All,
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        <div>Thank you Guillaume for the message, thank you to the OSMF
          and the Board for considering funding useful initiatives, but
          most of all thank you in advance to all the people who would
          end up doing the work. </div>
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        <div>I am not sure if this is the right place to make this
          comment, but from the perspective of a user of <a
            href="http://osm.org" moz-do-not-send="true">osm.org</a>, I
          think an extremely valuable upgrade to Nominatim would be to
          make the engine more "forgiving." Searching for placenames in
          Latin script usually requires that the query is typed
          perfectly (though not always, I'm not sure what rules govern
          this: "Londn" does find the capital of the UK, but "Warszaw"
          does not find the capital of Poland...?), which is only a
          little inconvenient when compared to the second-best online
          map. It is however more problematic when working in places
          where spellings are inconsistent, using other scripts, Latin
          transliterations, and so on. Given that the stated objective
          is to 'make software more user-friendly' I was wondering if
          there was any chance for development to improve this? I think
          this ticket <a
            href="https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/759"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/759</a> points
          to the issue I'm talking about.</div>
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        <div>Thanks again to all, and sorry if that's not relevant,</div>
        <div>Lukasz</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 02:30,
          Guillaume Rischard <<a
            href="mailto:openstreetmap@stereo.lu" moz-do-not-send="true">openstreetmap@stereo.lu</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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            <h1><font style="font-weight:normal" size="2"
                face="HelveticaNeue">Hi all,</font></h1>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The OSMF Board wants to facilitate and support improving
                infrastructure. During the Microgrants process, there
                were proposals
                that didn’t make it, but would together be a good pilot
                for a “OSM
                infrastructure” process, to learn how supporting osm
                infrastructure
                projects works well. </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The OSMF Board wants to fund a limited number of
                projects proposed by
                trusted long-term volunteers whose work we know and
                enjoy. We have
                selected the osm2pgsql and Potlatch microgrant
                proposals, and have a
                new proposal from Nominatim. </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                In the long term, we want to re-activate the Engineering
                Working
                Group (EWG) by making it a place for decision making,
                project
                guidance and budget management for such projects. </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The Board would like your feedback on these three
                specific
                infrastructure projects: </font></p>
            <h2><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue">Nominatim </font></h2>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                Nominatim is the geocoding software that powers <a
                  href="http://openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">openstreetmap.org
                  and many other apps and websites. Sarah wants to work
                  on: </a>
              </font></p>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> finishing the localization
                    efforts (improve address computation for different
                    countries, localized address output) </font></p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> making the software more
                    user-friendly (reduce the number of programming
                    languages by at least two, move side-projects into
                    separate repos, reorganise the code so that
                    Nominatim can become an Ubuntu package, docs, docs,
                    docs) </font></p>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The full proposal is at
                <a
                  href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Nominatim_project_2020-07"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Nominatim_project_2020-07
                </a>
              </font></p>
            <h2><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue">Potlatch 2 </font></h2>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                Potlatch 2 used to be the default editor before iD took
                the relay.
                While usage is declining, it’s <a
                  href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">still
                  used by 2500 (1.4%) users who did 10 million (1.2%)
                  changes in 2020. </a>
              </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                Potlatch is built in Flash, which browsers will retire
                by the end of
                the year. Richard wants to adapt Potlatch 2 to the AIR
                platform so
                users who still rely on it can continue to use it. </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The full proposal is at
                <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Potlatch_2_for_desktop"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Potlatch_2_for_desktop
                </a>
              </font></p>
            <h2><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue">osm2pgsql </font></h2>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                osm2pgsql loads OpenStreetMap data into databases
                suitable for
                applications like rendering into maps, geocoding with
                Nominatim, or
                general analysis. It is used on <a
                  href="http://openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">openstreetmap.org
                  and in many other places. </a>
              </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                While there has been constant paid and volunteer work on
                osm2pgsql,
                large scale architecture changes to pay off historical
                technical debt
                are needed to tackle long term challenges, and make
                future changes
                easier. </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                Jochen wants to work on: </font></p>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> Hosting documentation on <a
                      href="http://osm2pgsql.org/" target="_blank"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">osm2pgsql.org </a> </font></p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> Rethinking the output of the
                    program to make it more concise and useful </font></p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> Tackling the refactoring and
                    cleanup of the “middle” code. </font></p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> Ongoing maintenance as needed
                  </font></p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                    face="HelveticaNeue"> Other work from the road map
                    as time permits </font></p>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The original budget and scope were limited by the
                microgrant
                framework. The current project goes beyond that, and
                addresses open
                issues and potential improvements further and better. </font></p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                face="HelveticaNeue">
                The proposal is at
                <a
                  href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql_project_2020-07"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql_project_2020-07</a></font></p>
            <div><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="HelveticaNeue"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div><font face="HelveticaNeue">Thank you and happy mapping<br>
                <br>
                Guillaume, for the OSMF board</font></div>
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      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">pozdrawiam - kind regards -
        cumprimentos - mfg<br>
        Łukasz Kruk<br>
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