[Marble-devel] Retirement of gazetteer.openstreetmap.org

[Grant Slater]

Hi Dennis,

I wasn't aware Marble was one of the apps still using gazetteer.
Please use a User-Agent! ;-)

I'll look into writing a basic PHP wrapper to forward Marble's
Gazetteer on to Nominatim. I will likely only be able to get to this
at the end of the week, if someone else would like to take this task
it would be appreciated.

I'll quietly postpone the shutdown for a little.

Regards
 Grant


On 30 August 2010 16:13, Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> I just came across this mail [1] announcing the shutdown of
> gazetteer.osm.org by tomorrow. This service is used by Marble [2], a Virtual
> Globe and World Atlas. Marble is shipped by all major Linux distributions.
>
> We are using nominatim in our current version which is shipped with KDE 4.5,
> but nearly no stable Linux distribution is shipping this right now. This
> means that most Marble users are still using the older versions that only
> use gazetteer, and there is no way we can do anything about it.
>
> Would it be possible to (silently) prolong the existence of the gazetteer
> service? Otherwise the majority of Marble users has to live without a
> working search, which would be a pity.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
> [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-August/020234.html
> [2] http://edu.kde.org/marble
>
>