[OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> If we were only searching the names in the planet file or some other
> plain text, life would be simple. But it is a great deal more
> complicated than that to produce useful, contextual results. And I'd be
> the first to agree that it isn't there yet.

The quality of Name Finder is fine IMHO, judged bythe bar set by
commercial options.

BTW, geonames.org gives results in ~3s but on Openstreetmap it still
takes ~30s to get the search panel. Is it possible to do two queries
instead of one?