<p>After <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/509" class="issue-link" title="Use reverse geocoders for any lat/lon queries">#509</a>, the search tool on the website uses nominatim to get a list of real object for a lat/lon search term. Which makes sense. But, under some circumstances the results are too generic:</p>
<ol>
<li>start with a <a href="http://osm.org/go/bLuR-">zoomed out</a> map</li>
<li>search for a set of coordinates, e.g. <code>52.2575, 4.786667</code>
</li>
<li>get "European Union" as the result instead of a list of features that are actually at the given location</li>
</ol><p>I guess it would be safe to assume that a user doesn't want to search learge scale features if entering coordinates. I mean, one can't get any more specific than using coordinates, can one?</p>
<p>Another case is when there are no features at/around the searched coordinates the results may lie far from the actually searched coordinates.</p>
<ol>
<li>start with a zoomed in map</li>
<li>search for <code>77.0, 100.0</code>
</li>
<li>the only search result is at <code>72.56819, 94.76948</code> which is about 500km away.</li>
</ol>
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