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

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Grant,

thanks for your reply, exactly what I was hoping for :-)

On 31.08.2010 08:25, Grant Slater wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I wasn't aware Marble was one of the apps still using gazetteer.
> Please use a User-Agent! ;-)
>
>    
We do that for tile downloads and nominatim search requests, but indeed 
forgot to set it for gazetteer.

> 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.
>
>    

Sounds great! I'm glad to help out, though I'll probably be of no use on 
the OSM server side given my lack of knowledge there. Ping me via mail 
or IRC (Earthwings in freenode) if you need someone to test.

Thanks,
Dennis

> 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
>>
>>
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