[OSM-dev] Old data in the namefinder

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Thu Jun 11 15:03:35 BST 2009


On 11/06/2009 14:53, Ioan Indreias wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could somebody on this list explain why the namefinder service 
> (http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/) is running with a quite 
> old snapshot of OSM data (Index from OpenStreetMap data up to 9 Jan 2009)?
> 
> For me (a normal OSM user) is very strange to have a very old database 
> for the namefinder.
> 
> I have asked the same question on the OSM dev forum and I received the 
> recommendation for trying on one of the mailing lists.

Because the updates were interfering with searches, which meant 
rewriting how the updates were done, and I simply haven't had time to 
deal with this since.

Sorry,
David





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