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

[David Earl]

On 08/08/2007 01:00, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <a4c775140708071446o4ac7cb86lf4caee47b7e923f2 at mail.gmail.com>
>           "Dave Stubbs" <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> This is absolutely great! Fantastic! ... I need a thesaurus and fast.
>>
>> Just a couple of points that might make it even better:
>>
>>  - when the name finder returns things like "Street...", "Villiage..",
>> it might be nice to iconise that. It would make it immediately more
>> obvious the variety of result returned, and behave as a bit of a
>> bullet point too.
>>
>>  - from a style perspective, it might be nice to have the "about 2km
>> West of X" appear in a smaller less bright colour
> 
> I've made it so that only the actual name is the link now, which
> helps to make that stand out from the type prefix and the proximity
> suffix stuff.
> 
> We can probably do more - if somebody want to do some nice icons
> then feel free ;-) At least the geocoder splits the content up now
> anyway so they can easily be styled differently.

I think you could usefully use a smaller type size(throughout). It looks 
big even on my high-res display, so it wil look enormous on a typical 
1024 display I'd have thought.

David