[OSM-talk] The British Museum Test

[David Earl]

On 24/11/2007 09:36, John McKerrell wrote:
> Interesting posting, someone who knows a little more about our name  
> finder 

That would be me

> should perhaps put a comment on saying something along the  
> lines of "You forgot to test openstreetmap.org....". 

Err, I don't understand that. Can you explain what you meant some more.

> I've tried and  
> though it only seemed to zoom straight into one of them (I forget  
> which) 

It goes the the first one it finds, and then you click to go to others 
lower down the list.

> it managed to find all of them as the first result 

Good, I'm glad to hear that

> except for the following:
> 
> * the V&A - I couldn't get this to work at all

Looking at the map, it's been mapped both as "Victoria and Albert 
Museum" and "Victoria & Albert Museum" but not "V&A" or "the V&A". It 
gets the first but not the second for some reason (I'll investigate), 
and of course not the last two because they don't appear on the map at all.

I need to put an equivalence in for "and" vs "&" I guess, but to find 
"V&A" it would have to be labelled as such on the map e.g. "Victoria and 
Albert Museum (V&A)" should allow me to pick it up.

> * The Tower of London - but "Tower of London" worked fine.

I should perhaps ignore "the", "a" etc (and non-English equivalents), 
but it doesn't at the moment. It's an issue with pubs particularly, if 
you put in The Queens Head and it has been mapped as Queens Head

> * St Paul’s Cathedral - worked if I removed the apostrophe

That's a bug. That case should work. I'll investigate.

Thanks for the observations.

BTW, the size of the planet file has grown so much since this was first 
done that it is now becoming impractical to process it. It took over 80 
hours last time, and seems to double every week. So I need to spend some 
time on it to bring this back to manageable time (I know what I need to 
do), but in the meantime, I can't update the index every week for now.

David