[Geocoding] New geocoder test system

Jonas Krückel osm at jonas-krueckel.de
Wed Sep 30 18:03:03 BST 2009


Brian Quinion schrieb:
> 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/
>
> [...]
I'm quite impressed by this geocoder. I would say it's the best geocoder 
that uses OSM data I've seen so far and it can easily compete with 
Google Maps.
German umlaute like ü, ä etc. worked, german postcodes as well and the 
whole thing was really fast (ok, this might be partly because there is 
not very much server load at the moment)
Also just searching for a german suburb without any additional 
information worked pretty good.
I also like the very clean layout of the search results.
I didn't get any bugs so far, if I get any I will of course report them 
to you.
Keep up the good work, I hope we can see this geocoder on osm.org soon.

Cheers,
Jonas




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