[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[Peter Childs]

2009/11/14 Brian Quinion <openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk>:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
>> Looking at this the new Nominatim service seams to do 85% of what I
>> need, and might do more at a pinch. (Only found the service when I
>> logged into IRC tonight....)
>
> My hope is that in the fullness of time Nominatim can be extended to
> provide some sort of directory or supplementary address information
> export for osm.  but at the moment I'm concentrating on the search
> functionality.  If anyone else would like to join it to work on this
> aspect it would always be appreciated - I'm busy documenting what I've
> done at the moment, although there is a long way still to go.
>
> One thing to say is that the address generation is fairly simplistic.
> The addresses are mostly at the moment intended to provide context to
> the search results and I'm fully aware that in a lot of cases they are
> incorrect.  Some of the techniques discusses in the thread above are
> far more advanced!  You can read a quick summary of how it currently
> works here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Development_overview
>
> --
>  Brian
>

It gives a nice starting place, its not to say it can't be expanded
and improved. But its better than starting with a clean sheet of paper
than I thought I was. (And it will do most of what I need for the
moment, I think.... But as always things can be improved, mainly
through better and better data.

In other-words its a good start and solves my problems for the time being.

Peter.