<p>Hi <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=6830724" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/sommerluk">@sommerluk</a> , lets <strong>focus here on the search box</strong> as <a href="#issuecomment-451592419">@tomhughes's post</a>... More precisally, after some consensus, focus in the "search box with <strong>global pluscodes</strong>" <br>(see correct terminology and not be confuse with <em>local pluscodes</em>).</p>
<p>Lets use some concrete scenario on this focus.</p>
<h2>searching Pronto Socorro Maria</h2>
<p>All cities in Brasil have that first-words of name for an hospital with emergency department.</p>
<p><a href="https://plus.codes/588MFCJC+XX" rel="nofollow">Plus.codes</a> (after searching Pronto Socorro Maria) returns for me a map with center in <code>geo:-23.51755,-46.64692</code> (=<code>588MFCJC+XX</code>), and <a href="http://osm.org/search?query=Pronto+Socorro+Maria" rel="nofollow">Osm.org/search?query=Pronto+Socorro+Maria</a> returns <code>geo:-19.39847,-40.06149</code>. In your computer perhaps return other thing... So, <br><strong>why we need a pointer like PlusCode in a search box, if we use the box because we not have a pointer?</strong></p>
<p>The main answer is: because, as you see, there are many possible responses for the same search string ("Pronto Socorro Maria" key-words this case), so when we add any reasonable pluscode into the search string (now will be something as "Pronto Socorro Maria 588MFCMC+68"), the result will be better, for all people, me and you, in all search-enginies (OSM or not), will return a map with center in <code>geo:-23.51755,-46.64692</code>.</p>
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<p>PS: the focos <strong>is not</strong> to search "only the pluscode" in the box, with no other human-key-word. The OSM engine can response with an error "please add a query to find something <strong>near there</strong>".</p>
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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=6830724" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/sommerluk">@sommerluk</a> , all your other comments are important for the discussion that we are transfered to <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposal_Open_Location_Code" rel="nofollow">the wiki talk-page</a>... As you see, we need a precise definition about what we want in the search. The Wiki page is to define with precision what we want (or what is invalid for OSM).</p>
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