Georef Database

[daniel tygel]

I talked about this some years ago: unfortunately, the goenames database 
is much poorer than the google maps geocoding, which is also a free API 
open for consultation.

The "sniffer" in fbes.org.br was built using the geocoder, and it worked 
quite well. The solution we made (as EITA) for localization, which is 
already available, checks this API and gives far better results for 
lat/lng than geonames. The user don't need to write the whole address. 
If he/she gives only the city of zip code, the icon will be close enough 
to the target.

So I think it would be better to make the actual localization better 
than to use the geonames server. I studied it a lot, and it was really 
bad for Brazil (it only worked 100% for USA, and fairly well for Europe, 
but was terrible for latin america).

I don't know if our localization solution is already integrated in 
noosfero. Maybe Braulio can tell us here. In Cirandas, it's already 
working, and the user doesn't need to do anything besides writing freely 
his/her address.

daniel

Em 27-01-2014 14:20, "Aurélio A. Heckert" escreveu:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a great interest in georef, and that is a lot more important 
> to EcoSol enterprises, but we still not using it very well.
>
> We rely so much on user to set its own lat/lng on the map, but that 
> does not happens. We can think on UI to make that better, but we must 
> not expect 100%. In the other hand, it is easy to fill city and country.
>
> For some geo search/filtering we don't need the exact location, so 
> giving the city lat/lng to the profile will help us to do a nice job.
>
> So, i found this:
> http://www.geonames.org/export/
> This is a cool CSV database of cities with name variation (helping the 
> search) country, georef and more, in CC-by.
>
> We can write a rake command to download the last allCountries.zip file 
> and fill or update the region related models, extended with the extra 
> useful data from this CSV.
>
> Please, write spec ideas here:
> http://noosfero.org/Development/ActionItem2970
> Also visit this pag to see more data. ;-)
>
> Hasta!
> Aurium
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