http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/07/11/absconding-to-ireland-and-feckups-at-the-hosting/ GIS, maps, mapping, geo, UK, Geograph, PHP, Perl and more Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:57:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/07/11/absconding-to-ireland-and-feckups-at-the-hosting/comment-page-1/#comment-87250 Helen Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:08:42 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/?p=129#comment-87250 The Geograph API and Nearby's produce quite distinct results! The main problem with Geograph's is that if there is more than one placename returned, it fails 'unable to identify a unique location'. Although some of its search results come from the title or descriptive text rather than the location! In practice Nearby's API produces a result far more often, and for my purposes I would rather have a link to the wrong place than to no place at all. Try a search on a few placenames such as 'wick' and you will see what I mean. The Geograph API and Nearby’s produce quite distinct results! The main problem with Geograph’s is that if there is more than one placename returned, it fails ‘unable to identify a unique location’. Although some of its search results come from the title or descriptive text rather than the location! In practice Nearby’s API produces a result far more often, and for my purposes I would rather have a link to the wrong place than to no place at all. Try a search on a few placenames such as ‘wick’ and you will see what I mean.

]]> http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/07/11/absconding-to-ireland-and-feckups-at-the-hosting/comment-page-1/#comment-87157 Helen Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:17:15 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/?p=129#comment-87157 The find-syndicator.php script has been down for a few days - unless it has a cached query it tells you to 'try again later'. As a matter of interest, why does it fail for some queries such as 'London' and points of the compass other than 'east'? The find-syndicator.php script has been down for a few days – unless it has a cached query it tells you to ‘try again later’. As a matter of interest, why does it fail for some queries such as ‘London’ and points of the compass other than ‘east’?

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