[OSM-dev] Name finder for the main OSM page?

[Milo van der Linden]

Tom Hughes schreef:
> In message <46B30972.3080301 at web.de>
>         Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at web.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> The name finder at http://www.frankieandshadow.com/osm/ is doing a *much 
>> better* job to find stuff than what we currently have a the 
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html
>>     

The Frankieandshadow namefinder is excellent! I found the streets I
personally created in OSM within a split second. Please, please, please
let's adopt this finder for OSM in General and replace the finder on the
homepage! The XML result is also excellent. If we could enhance the xml
a bit so it returns gml and/or kml, it would be an excellent future-safe
place finder that can be integrated in GIS and Google Maps and Earth.
Wouldn't that be a nice extra on OSM?

But I am wondering what frankieandshadow does in the background; they
don't seem to query the main OSM database directly, but build some sort
of index? What is required in order to get this functionallity running
from the main OSM site?

My guess is that finding housenumbers is probably no option (yet)
>> For example: When I enter Schuckertplatz at OSM I simply get nothing 
>> useful, but the name finder just points me to the place I was looking for.
>>
>> I would think having a good engine to find things is an *essential* part 
>> of an online map and make the OSM map much more useful - so IMHO this is 
>> really important.
>>
>> Is there any chance to replace the current "finding engine"?
>>     

>
> One problem is that the OSM one will do a very good job for places
> that have been well mapped on OSM but a rubbish job for places that
> haven't been touched yet!
>   
I disagree on this point. Even points well mapped are not always found
correctly, take the advice, just implement what is currently on
frankieandshadow.com
> The fact that you were searching for a road name won't have helped
> you much either as I don't think any of the current sources goes to
> anything like that level of detail - they really only have names of
> towns and villages I think.
>
> The solution therefore is probably just to add the OSM name finder
> to the list of sites which the search engine uses rather than
> replacing one with the other.
>
> I'll try and have a look at it anyway...
>
> Tom
>
>   
Cool! Don't forget to talk to frankies shadow..


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