Bug 230258

Summary:	[Patch] Use OSM's Nominatim in an advanced location search dialog
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	Colin Marquardt <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nienhueser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	0.8 (KDE 4.3)
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	marble-nominatim-runner.diff

Description Colin Marquardt 2010-03-10 22:40:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.5)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

OpenStreetMap has gotten a nice location search engine, Nominatim (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/). 
It also has a reverse geocoder.

It could be offered in an advanced search dialog. If you decide to do that, please read http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Usage_Policy though :)

Comment 1 Dennis Nienhüser 2010-03-10 22:59:28 UTC

Results seem to be better than the ones from gazetteer.openstreetmap.org which is currently used as a runner in marble. Nominatim looks like a good runner candidate to complement or replace gazetteer.
Reverse geocoding would be useful for the routing application as well.

Comment 2 Dennis Nienhüser 2010-03-11 21:41:17 UTC

Created attachment 41542 [details]
marble-nominatim-runner.diff

This adds a MarbleRunner which is used alongside the other runners to retrieve placemarks for search terms.

We need to talk to the osm people about the usage policy (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim email address in user agent and time limits) before it can be committed.

Comment 3 Dennis Nienhüser 2010-03-12 22:11:06 UTC

Got a nice reply from the nominatim author: The user agent is fine and the time restriction only meant for bulk downloads, which we do not do. Therefore we can add and use it like this.

Comment 4 Dennis Nienhüser 2010-03-12 22:38:35 UTC

SVN commit 1102568 by nienhueser:

Add Openstreetmap nominatim runner. Make common userAgent method available in TinyWebBrowser, used by HttpJob and OsmNominatimRunner.
BUG: 230258

 M  +1 -0      CMakeLists.txt  
 M  +4 -7      HttpJob.cpp  
 M  +9 -1      MarbleRunnerManager.cpp  
 M  +8 -0      TinyWebBrowser.cpp  
 M  +2 -0      TinyWebBrowser.h  
 A             runners/OsmNominatimRunner.cpp   [License: LGPL]
 A             runners/OsmNominatimRunner.h   [License: LGPL]


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1102568