[Geocoding] New geocoder test system

Florian Lohoff flo at rfc822.org
Wed Sep 30 17:15:28 BST 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:06:02PM +0100, Brian Quinion wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After several false starts the goecoding tool I've been working on
> seems to have succeeded in indexing the full planet file and it is now
> available for people to experiment with here:
> 
> http://katie.openstreetmap.org/~twain/
> 
> Data is from 2 weeks ago (approx.) and will remain as is for a week or
> so so people can try things after which I'll be using it as a test
> system to try importing the daily diff files.
> 
> There are still several known problems:
> 1) No suggestion for miss-spelt words
> I have code that produces suggestions but have not yet written the
> interface for it.

Quick check 

"Alt Hammoor, Mastholte, Germany" does not work 
"Gerstenkamp, Mastholte, Germany" works

It knows about Mastholte, Germany and it knows about other streets in Mastholte
but it does not know about Alt Hammoor. This is probably due to Alt Hammoor
beeing to far away?

Alt Hammoor
http://osm.org/go/0GPuDxC5r-

Mastholte (town)
http://osm.org/go/0GPrxduf

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                         flo at rfc822.org
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