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

2010-10-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Nic Roets wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Shaun McDonald > wrote: >> On 5 Oct 2010, at 00:38, Nic Roets wrote: >>> 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

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

2010-10-05 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 5 Oct 2010, at 08:26, Ed Avis wrote: > Shaun McDonald shaunmcdonald.me.uk> writes: > >> For example according to Nominatim Surrey covers most of London >> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=559111 > > Is there a reason why Nominatim doesn't use the administrative county

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

2010-10-05 Thread Ed Avis
Shaun McDonald shaunmcdonald.me.uk> writes: >For example according to Nominatim Surrey covers most of London >http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=559111 Is there a reason why Nominatim doesn't use the administrative county boundaries? -- Ed Avis

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

2010-10-05 Thread Nic Roets
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > On 5 Oct 2010, at 00:38, Nic Roets wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis wrote: >>> So, is it possible for Mapquest to generate aggregate information on what >>> name >>> searches people are doing and how often they find th

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

2010-10-04 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 23:28, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Ed Avis wrote: >> >> In general, I think our goal must be to make OSM a suitable replacement >> for >> Google Maps, and to do so as quickly as possible. > > [...] > >> So we need to find a >> way to prioritize our efforts > > -1 on both.

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

2010-10-04 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 5 Oct 2010, at 00:38, Nic Roets wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis 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 c

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

2010-10-04 Thread Nic Roets
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis 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 > offer

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

2010-10-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ed Avis wrote: In general, I think our goal must be to make OSM a suitable replacement for Google Maps, and to do so as quickly as possible. [...] So we need to find a way to prioritize our efforts -1 on both. Not saying that you mustn't prioritize your efforts - by all means do! - b

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

2010-10-04 Thread Ed Avis
Coast, Hurricane mapquest.com> writes: >>are there any >>particular wishes from the Mapquest people about how the data can be >>improved? > >>We do have a wish list that I'm sure is quite similar to many OSMers. But >>let me turn around the question to the community: how do you think the data >>c

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

2010-10-04 Thread Coast, Hurricane
Message: 1 >>> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:46:48 + (UTC) >>> From: Ed Avis >>> To: talk@openstreetmap.org >>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Hurricane hits MapQuest >>> Message-ID: >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> It's great to see the new Mapques