[OSM-talk] Updated name finder

[David Earl]

I've updated the name finder at http://www.frankieandshadow.com/osm/ for the
following changes (many of which were suggested or discussed on the list):

- data now includes this week's planet

- it now has XML output too, so searches and results can be initiated and
presented on other sites (e.g. the main osm site). The human readable site
uses the XML itself, so there aren't two separate interfaces. Details at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder

- the range of equivalenced characters is much bigger - pretty much every
Latin character that made sense (Hakan: note Izmir, Usak and Tekirdag;
consider also Sladkovicovo and Sered, near Bratislava, and Kamien Pomorski
in Poland, all with their accents)

- there are multiple transliterations for some characters (e.g. München,
Munchen and Muenchen all find the former, as do Århus, Aarhus and Arhus, and
København, Kobenhavn and Koebenhavn)

- there's a URL listed underneath the result, which may be helpful if you
want to copy and paste to include in an email to someone.

- varying zoom levels for a wider range of features (note that some items
have more than one possibility, in which case I use the default zoom level,
16; this is a particular problem with airports, I think).

- by popular request, airport codes (tags 'iata=<code>' and 'iaco=<code>')
are included, so a search for LAX now works, for example.

- fixed a bug where if the search string included a possessive it didn't
find it (e.g. "Martin's Lake" now works).

I'm sure you'll let me know if I introduced any new problems.

I haven't one this yet, but I'm thinking it may be useful to add certain tag
names into the index as well, so you could search e.g. for 'cinema,
Cambridge' or 'post office, Waterbeach' even if the name tag was missing or
didn't include the words cinema or post office.

David