[OSM-talk] OSM and MapQuest [was Hurricane hits MapQuest]

Nic Roets nroets at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 00:38:48 BST 2010


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> So, is it possible for Mapquest to generate aggregate information on what name
> searches people are doing and how often they find the result they wanted?  The
> latter is not something you can measure directly, but you can see which of the
> offered results the user clicks on, which gives a clue.

The biggest problem I experience when searching with Nominatim for a
street is that you need to guess the place name that *it* has chosen.
For example, Hyperion Drive falls in a suburb (johannesburg North, I
think). The suburb falls in a region and the region falls in a city.
And the city falls in a province. Some of that information is already
in OSM as administrative borders.

But end users seldom know where the borders are, so they will just
search for "hyperion, johannesburg" and not get an answer. (To get it,
search for "hyperion, roodepoort") Or they will be too lazy to type
the suburb.



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