State of the search box Iain Elder Database Engineer
State of the search box Geo Project update State of the search box Streets in Skyscanner Hotels Data Release Process Data quality issues in OSM and Skyscanner Ideas for improvement
Skyscanner Geo Project To improve Skyscanner’s awareness of place Now: airports, cities, hotels, car rental offices In progress: tourist areas, monuments, rivers, venues, …
State of the search box: tourist areas
State of the search box: monuments
State of the search box: rivers
State of the search box: venues
State of the search box: consistency?
State of the search box: no maps!
State of the search box: streets
Hotels Data Release Process: General
Hotels Data Release Process: Streets Deduplicate and geolocate as many hotels as possible. Export from OSM all ways representing streets. Keep streets that are close to a hotel. Assign the street to the most common city of the nearby hotels.
Shandwick Place on Skyscanner
Shandwick Place on OSM (1 of 5)
Shandwick Place on OSM (2 of 5)
Shandwick Place on OSM (3 of 5)
Shandwick Place on OSM (4 of 5)
Shandwick Place on OSM (5 of 5)
Shandwick Place internally
Queensferry Road on OSM (1 of 10?)
Queensferry Road on Skyscanner
Queensferry Road internally
How can we improve? Community: Deduplicate streets Add building numbers Improve the geocoder Add more hotels Skyscanner More hotels Routing Street number search More POIs
Missing Maps Iain Elder Database Engineer