On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:04 +0200, Michael Willigens <mich...@willigens.de> wrote: > Hey, > > i have thought about that last night, > Its sounds a bit odd but it would be possible to use an LDAP server > for GeoNaming lookups. We could create a canonical, hirachical scheme > and fill in any named Objects. Correctly implemented LDAP is several > times faster than MySQL in naming lookups and supports also wildcard > queries. We could even split up the request by using a well known has > funstion among severla LDAP servers. > An Example scheme "could" depend on places and large polygon border > structures like: > Earth - > Continent -> Country -> State -> Region -> City -> ... > We could fill on Bogus placeholders for canonicals that are not > defined. (i.e. Countries without any States like Liechtenstein) > > what dou you think about that ?
I dou ;) think that placeholders would not be required if using ObjectClass Planet, Continent, Country, State,... Thus: p=Earth,c=Lichtenstein,city=Au,district=Haslach,Street=Haslachstrasse,housenr=2 (no State here, other cities may have no district) Marcus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
