[Roadster] Importing Tiger issue

[Ian McIntosh]

Hi Arne,

I am the original author.

Nope, no one is working on improving the import function.  I have been
planning on replacing the current import code with an external library
(either libmygis[1] or gdal[2]).

I'd like to hear your ideas for the search.  The current search box
searches both roads and Points of Interest (POI) and works like this:

For POI, it uses the rule "all search words must be present somewhere in
POI data fields".  It means that more search words == fewer results,
like Google.

For roads, the search words must be a prefix of the road name ("Welling"
will match "Wellington").  House numbers and suffixes ("st", "ave") are
optional and will result in fewer results (direction prefixes/suffixes
like "NW" aren't supported yet, but will also be optional).

It will also have city/state searching eventually.

All results are sorted by distance from the current view.  Closer things
show up higher in the list, with the rationale being that it's more
likely what the user wants.  We could also weight the results to show
"bigger" things, like cities, higher in the list.

Best,
-Ian

[1] http://jcole.us/software/libmygis/
[2] http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal



On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:01 +0800, Arne Götje
(=?utf-8?q?=E9=AB=98=E7=9B=9B=E8=8F=AF?=) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I tried to import the California Tiger data (2004) and noticed, that the 
> import tool does not do a very good job. A lot of road names are 
> missing and therefore cannot be found by the search function.
> 
> I'd like to help to improve the import function. Is anyone else already 
> working on that?
> 
> Also I'd like to discuss some (IMHO necessary) changes to the database 
> layout and the search function. But for this I need to get an overview 
> of the intentions of the original author(s), what (s)he/they had in 
> mind when (s)he/they implemented the current function.
> 
> Can someone fill me in?
> Who is/are the original author(s) of the import and search function and 
> how is the function intended to work?
> 
> Cheers
> Arne
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