[talk-au] List of potential datasources

[John Smith]

--- On Mon, 17/8/09, James Livingston <doctau at mac.com> wrote:
> I'll have a look around to see what's already been done for
> this, but  
> it shouldn't be too hard to. If the search is of the form
> 'X near Y'  
> then do a place lookup on Y, and if you find Y, then look
> for nearby  
> nodes with:
>   * X is of the form "some text", then look for
> name=some text
>   * X is of the form a=b;c=d then look for those (as a
> power-user thing)
>   * otherwise use a table of mapping, e.g. toilets
> -> amenity=toilet,  
> lakes -> natural=water

POI search is on my list of things to do, I have a search to find towns already so it shouldn't be a big leap to search for nearby POIs.