<p>Well that's a general issue with Nominatim, that it tends to only match exact names, and isn't specific to the prioritisation of local results.</p>
<p>In any case all of this is nothing to do with the web site code - it just passes the query string and bounding box to Nominatim and it decides what to match and how to order the matches, so <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues">https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues</a> would be the place to discuss any changes.</p>

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