[OSM-talk] SEO

[David Earl]

On 25/10/2008 17:38, Xav wrote:
> What would be fantastic is urls of this kind :
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/
> ...for a lot of medium and big cities.
> 
> The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on 
> their pages. With the current URLs to OSM (with lat and lon),  the 
> robots can't know that a URL links to london or berlin or lyon.

I'm expecting http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/london or similar will 
work in due course. No doubt we could do some url mapping from the main 
site if thought worthwhile - e.g. 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/gazetteer/london

David