On 18 February 2018 at 17:34, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > In the diatribe (no disrespect meant, since it did bring up some relevant > points that we can use constructively, simply a description of the tone) > that emacsen posted last week that we've surely all read by now, he does > bring up one point that I think we can work on for fairly immediate > improvement. > > On the OSM homepage, can we use the visible area (or maybe that plus an > exploded offset to a larger surrounding bounds) as a bonding box to be > passed to Nominatim for some context when searching? This animation really > drives the problem home. > > https://gfycat.com/NiceImperturbableCatfish >
Not great. :-( Nominatim effectively only has 1 maintainer / primary contributor: https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/graphs/contributors lonvia spends a significant amount of her volunteered time defending the service again abusers. https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/ Single users can overload nominatim by sending 1000s of automated requests per second, the same holds true for the tile servers we run: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ Nearly as bad contribution wise is the server infrastructure code: https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/graphs/contributors What we badly need is more help from developers and chef operations people. How about someone in the community organises a Beauty Parade / Cross Comparison of different open OpenStreetMap GeoCoders? The OpenStreetMap Operations team prefers to be able to self-host the infrastructure required to run OpenStreetMap.org. Reasons: Privacy / Maintainability / Availability. We don't go this route for a navigation / router as they seem to be under constant flux, without a clear "winner" and system their requirements keep climbing. Kind regards, Grant _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
