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This is mySociety's popular map-based reporting platform: easy to install in new countries and regions
http://fixmystreet.org/
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Switch to OSM for default GB geocoder? #1680

Open pezholio opened 7 years ago

pezholio commented 7 years ago

Looking at geocoder results for #1679, it seems that (at least for Bristol) the OSM geocoder results are better than the default Bing ones. It got me thinking, as OSM coverage is (pretty much) universal for the UK these days, do we want to switch the default geocoder to OSM instead of Bing?

Discussion with @dracos in Slack suggests that if we do this, we might need to write our own OSM geocoder, as we might hit Nominatim's usage limits.

davea commented 7 years ago

The relevant Slack discussion: https://mysociety.slack.com/archives/C3TR0SSS3/p1490885904104537