NLMaps Web: A Natural Language Interface to OpenStreetMap

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Sunday, 10:00 UTC
Duration: 20 minutes (plus Q&A)


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  • Simon Will

NLMaps Web is a web interface for querying OSM with natural language questions such as “Show me where I can find drinking water within 500m of the Louvre in Paris”. They are first parsed into a custom query language, which is then used to retrieve the answer by queries to Nominatim and Overpass.