On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only "approved and allowed" sources, that would be nice to have.
Sounds like a great community project, Wiki Search!
yes it would be great. As i said, it could just include all pages listed as REF pages and that would allow people to review the results and find pages that should not belong.
We also need to cache all these pages, best would be with a revision history. It should be similar to or using archive.org.
The searching could also use lucene or some other project. It does not have to be google.
On this note, I would really like to see a wordindex for openstreetmap as well, there is a huge amount of information that could be relevant in osm that should be easier to use in WP.
mike
Openstreetmap is a wiki still in the "Wild West" phase. Words cannot express the nonsense it hosts.
If you are looking for a place named "X" or a location for some article then it would be nice to have a better search engine of that content. Wikipedia can help. Of course the WP articles are of a higher standard than alot of OSM data, but there is a greater coverage. There are alot of articles with no coords that could be fixed or assisted by editor having a faster and better index to the OSM data, no doubt. mike