[OSM-dev] gazetteer.openstreetmap.org for name finder?

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Thu Oct 4 10:30:57 BST 2007


On 1 Oct 2007, at 20:34, Thomas Walraet wrote:

> David Earl wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if we could have a new subdomain (say
>> gazetteer.openstreetmap.org) which I could have ssh access to, and a
>> mySQL database to start doing all this?
>
> If the goal is to be indexed by search engine, isn't it better to use
> www.openstreetmap.org to have the benefit of an already very good
> google-rank ?
>

Actually sub-domains help the main domain in terms of page rank and  
higher search results.

Shaun

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