[OSM-talk] SEO

Adam Schreiber sadam at clemson.edu
Sat Oct 25 23:09:56 BST 2008


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> 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

Should that be something like:

 http://www.openstreetmap.org/gazetteer/uk/london

instead?  Likewise, a city in the USA would be something like

http://www.openstreetmap.org/gazetteer/us/state/city

Cheers,

Adam




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