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

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Thu Mar 27 10:56:01 GMT 2008


David Earl wrote:
> It's a hard call. I did do a kind of weighting in the "where am I" 
> feature to give a reasonable spread of places of different kinds - 
> though again Tom hasn't implemented this in quite the same way on the 
> home page.

I agree that it's a hard call (and trade-off). Also, I don't want to 
appear as complaining. I think the implementation as-is, is pretty 
fantastic.

I wonder whether some context can be drawn in from whether there is a 
administrative city boundary or residential landuse area surrounding a 
street. But this would of course increase the parsing complexity a lot, 
I guess.

Anyway, thanks for the namefinder!

Sebastian




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