Am Mittwoch, den 07.04.2010, 18:05 +0000 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: No, it is an effort to produce human readable text from the OSM tags of POIs and is still in a proof of concept state. It is using gettext and my own translation, which is the same as geocoder.search_osm_nominatim.prefix.* plus a few detail description strings. The POI title is in the same context as in Nominatim, like in your example "Hotel <Name of the hotel>" meaning "The hotel <name>". In the detailed description only a few tags are supported by now (like telephone, fax, website). The goal is to make human readable text for as many tags as possible. I mentioned cuisine for restaurants as an example. I agree. If I get requests for further prefixes, I will add them to en.yml in the OSM SVN. This should be useful for Nominatim, too. The detail descriptions are not available in Nominatim yet, the OpenStreetBrowser is providing some human readable text (at least addresses, maybe more). I think they could be available on the OSM website as something like /browse/{node,way,relation}/readable, but there is no rails code for it yet. Okay, that would be the case at the moment. However, I think the prefixes (like Nominatim's) and "detail names" (or however we could call it) can be shared by many applications and we should avoid duplicate translation effort for the same purpose.