Comments on: Tesco’s troubles and reverse geocoding http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/10/30/tesco-troubles-and-reversegeocoding/ The CloudMade Blog Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:32:24 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/10/30/tesco-troubles-and-reversegeocoding/comment-page-1/#comment-3500 Ryan Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:30:35 +0000 http://blog.cloudmade.com/?p=449#comment-3500 Firefox 3.6 has extended the geolocation API's position interface to do reverse geocoding in the browser. From lat/lng points it can get an approximate address very powerful stuff https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIDOMGeoPositionAddress Firefox 3.6 has extended the geolocation API’s position interface to do reverse geocoding in the browser. From lat/lng points it can get an approximate address very powerful stuff https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIDOMGeoPositionAddress

]]> By: Mapguy http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/10/30/tesco-troubles-and-reversegeocoding/comment-page-1/#comment-3496 Mapguy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:06:40 +0000 http://blog.cloudmade.com/?p=449#comment-3496 I have been using the Cloudmade's routing service which is great because it allows us to offer a ncie service on top of OSM and also to find possible errors in the data. But we had to implement our own namefinder because the geocoder is not helpful for Eastern Europe countries (at least), due to the fact that it gives different results if the search has (or not) special characters like diacritics. Seems like issue 83 http://developers.cloudmade.com/issues/show/83 was created for this. Hopefully this will be implemented soon. I have been using the Cloudmade’s routing service which is great because it allows us to offer a ncie service on top of OSM and also to find possible errors in the data.

But we had to implement our own namefinder because the geocoder is not helpful for Eastern Europe countries (at least), due to the fact that it gives different results if the search has (or not) special characters like diacritics. Seems like issue 83 http://developers.cloudmade.com/issues/show/83 was created for this. Hopefully this will be implemented soon.

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