[OSM-talk] State of the NameFinder

[Jonas Krückel]

Am 26.08.2009 um 13:44 schrieb Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
>
> Congracts everyone with amount of input OSM recieves this year.
> Volunteers join us every day and changesets grow in detaility and
> quality. However, there is one set back and those are two things -
> mapnik render and NameFinder. While mapnik slowly gains additional
> renders for POIs and stuff, people can't find anything newer than
> January in NameFinder. I also think it is time to redesign it and make
> default version more good looking. Yes, I know, commercial vendors are
> here for selling services, but stil, as a geek, I contribute to OSM
> and want to use OSM slippy map.
>
> Anyway, so far I have heard about two efforts of getting NameFinder
> running again. First one is just performance improvement for old one
> (done by David Earl) and second one is completely new effort (by
> Twain).

Nestoria (Ed Freyfogle) also offered help for a new search/namefinder  
on SOTM. And Geocommons made their geocoding service open source.
So maybe we should start a kind of working group who looks at all the  
offers and possibilities and then get one running.

Maybe this could also be one topic for a hacking session on wherecampeu.

I would join a working group, who else is interested?

Jonas

>
> How far both projects are? Is there anything someone with moderate
> Linux/sysadmining/Python/Postgresql/whatever knowledge can help?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
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