1. State of the search box Iain Elder Database Engineer Skyscanner @iainsme iainelder@hotmail.co.uk

2. 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

3. Skyscanner Geo Project To improve Skyscanner’s awareness of place Now: airports, cities, hotels, car rental offices In progress: tourist areas, monuments, rivers, venues, …

5. State of the search box: tourist areas

6. State of the search box: monuments

7. State of the search box: rivers

8. State of the search box: venues

9. State of the search box: consistency?

10. State of the search box: no maps!

11. State of the search box: streets

12. Hotels Data Release Process: General

13. 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.

14. Shandwick Place on Skyscanner

15. Shandwick Place on OSM (1 of 5)

16. Shandwick Place on OSM (2 of 5)

17. Shandwick Place on OSM (3 of 5)

18. Shandwick Place on OSM (4 of 5)

19. Shandwick Place on OSM (5 of 5)

20. Shandwick Place internally

21. Queensferry Road on OSM (1 of 10?)

22. Queensferry Road on Skyscanner

23. Queensferry Road internally

24. 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

25. Missing Maps http://mapq.st/1ONOGBV http://mapq.st/1ONOGBV Iain Elder Database Engineer Skyscanner @iainsme Iainelder@hotmail.co.uk