Sorry, neglected to send this to the list... On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:14:54 +0000, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The discussion of finding Paris Ontario equated to Paris France just now > reminds me to raise again the granularity of our place hierarchy. > Notwithstanding value judgements people make about what is a "town", not > just based on population, I still think we need some more levels in the > city - town - village - hamlet hierarchy.
Two tagging thoughts and three search ideas... Tags 1 - Yes, let's have more granularity in the city/town/village/suburb/hamlet schema, and let someone run through their regions updating places Tags 2 - Use administrative importance as well, i.e. we properly mark when places are capitals of countries / regions / local government / etc. so they get boosted up the search ranks. Bedford (UK) comes up 10th below a load of insignificant looking US towns. Search 1 - Guess the searcher's country by IP and prioritise those results, if I'm in the UK I'm probably going to only want UK results unless I specify "Bedford, USA" Search 2 - Show country flags by results, maybe even group results by city/town/etc. and then within those categories by country. When searching for Bedford I had to look at the coordinates because I didn't realised "Town Bedford, about 5km north of Wixams" was the right one. Search 3 - Show pinpoints for the results on the map, so at least you can quickly discard all those results from the wrong side of the globe. Kind regards, Tom _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
