[OSM-talk] Name finder and home page search working again

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 20:53:23 GMT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:41 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
snip
>  - All combinations of apostrophe s, singular and plural should now work
>  (previously it worked if it was mapped with 's and searched without, but
>  not vice-versa).
>
>  - We now get 100% on the "British Museum Test for public mapping
>  websites" (though bear in mind "National Gallery" finds those in
>  Scotland and Ireland as well, Tate Modern catches the one in Liverpool
>  as well, so qualifying with London is advisable). Unfortunately "disused
>  station British Museum" comes out ahead of the museum proper in the list
>  because it is nearer London (****)
>
>  David
>
>  -----------------------------
snip
>
>  (****) See talk thread "The British Museum Test" starting Nov 24 2007,
>  and
>  http://povesham.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/the-british-museum-test-for-public-mapping-websites/
>  "The Tower of London" fixed by the definite article fix; V&A and British
>  Airways London Eye fixed on the map; St Paul's Cathedral fixed with the
>  apostrophe s fix, though actually the mapped name should really have an
>  apostrophe).
>

The namefinder still seems to fail with: St Paul's Cathedral
(apostrophe as copied & pasted from the British Museum blog post)

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)




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