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--- nominatim [2019/07/17 07:53] – Frank Nestel
+++ nominatim [2024/09/27 16:23] (current) – google105661541109472601976
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 ====== OpenStreetMap and Nominatim ======
-[[https://www.badge-r-s.de/|The location based game Badge(r)s]] relies on a political structure of the world to determine [[rules:regions|played regions]], we rely on  [[https://www.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetmap data]] via the [[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/|Nominatim Services]].
+[[https://www.badge-r-s.de/|The location based game Badge(r)s]] relies on a political structure of the **world** and it's **countries** (below find clickable coats of arms of //played countries//) to determine [[rules:regions|played regions]], we rely on  [[https://www.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetmap data]] via the [[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/|Nominatim Services]].
 This is a **great** free and public service and another sample what open source and crowd sourcing can accomplish. We consume their service but we make sure to play fair, i.e. throttle request frequency, cache the retrieved results etc. Beyond the requirements they state, we also shift of our badged update requests preferably to less busy times like (European) night and weekend.
-//Beyond friendly consumption Badge%%(r)%%s also **contributes** back to OSM/Nominatim, in form of corrections to OSM data and bug reports to Nominatim software on Github, quite a few of both being resolved by now and back in the public. Major agent but not only for this is [[user:mega_chip|MegaChip]].
+//Beyond friendly consumption Badge%%(r)%%s also **contributes** back to OSM/Nominatim, in form of corrections to OSM data and bug reports to Nominatim software on Github, quite a few of both being resolved by now and back in the public.
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+{{url>/iFrameCountries.php 32%,777 noscroll noborder left|Played Countries}}
 We truly recommend these systems. However there are issues, we have to cope with. We mention them here, not to talk bad about OSM and Nominatim, but to document chances and boundaries of such services. Note that in preliminary experiments Nominatim was more reliable than Google Maps for Badgers purposes.
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   * Downtimes. Occasionally Nominatim is down.
-Considerable programming effort has gone to make our Nominatim interface more robust against above issues. The scripts fetching and updating our database from Nominatim/OSM sources are one of the **crown jewels of Badgers programming**. Still there is **continuous manual effort** going into this, to keep things tidy. An tool set has been developed to support manually spotting, diagnosing and interactive fixing further issues in the obtained data.
+Considerable programming effort has gone to make our Nominatim interface more robust against above issues. The scripts fetching and updating our database from Nominatim/OSM sources are one of the **crown jewels of Badgers programming**. Still there is **continuous manual effort** going into this, to keep things tidy, we call this **Mapmin** (Map-Admin) work. An tool set has been developed to support manually spotting, diagnosing and interactive fixing further issues in the obtained data.
-We check data especially carefully before we establish [[badge:ruler|Ruler]] or [[badge:mapper|Mapper]] badges, we have to do some manual work before we establish awards based on bugs. The major part of the queue for this work is summarized on the [[https://www.badge-r-s.de/suggestedRegions2.php|Suggested Regions page]]. And, to confess, despite the given manual and automatic effort, we occasionally create broken such badges.
+We check data especially carefully before we establish [[badge:ruler|Ruler]] or [[badge:mapper|Mapper]] badges, we have to do some manual work before we establish awards based on bugs. The major part of the queue for this work is summarized on the [[https://www.badge-r-s.de/suggestRegions2.php|Suggested Regions page]]. And, to confess, despite the given manual and automatic effort, we occasionally create broken such badges.