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<p>Am 28.02.2021 um 16:03 schrieb Paul Allen:<br>
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<div>On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 14:51, Robin Burek <<a
href="mailto:robin.burek@gmx.de" moz-do-not-send="true">robin.burek@gmx.de</a>>
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<div>No, I think you're near the truth. <span lang="en"><span><span>The
problem here: nominatim neglects a lot of different
data (e.g. stop area relations and much more) - mho:
The search is more broken than it really works well.
It works for me not like a search should do in 21st
century.....<br>
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<div>It works well enough for its intended purpose, to find
things by name. For</div>
<div>many ordinary data consumers, that is the main thing they
want to do:</div>
<div>they need to find towns, villages, hamlets or even houses
with specific</div>
<div>names. Having found a town they can look at the icons
and names</div>
<div>of shops to see what is there. Not many need to find
stop area</div>
<div>relations. I've never needed to find a stop area
relation.</div>
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<div>If you want a more comprehensive search then use
overpass-turbo. I</div>
<div>do not consider it to be something suitable for ordinary
consumers but</div>
<div>it does many (all?) of the things you may want.</div>
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<p>I can handle overpass - my grandmother or my mother not :D And a
search is more than find only towns or such things.<br>
When I search for a restaurant - why should it mark the next
restaurants in my visible area. <br>
When I search for the stop-area "Hauptbahnhof Ost" in Magdeburg i
want to see all stop-points (btw. the bus stop and the tram stop
are 300m apart) not first the first platform, then the stop point
for this, and so on.... That ist not intuitive. And the stop-area
has also the name "Hauptbahnhof Ost" ;)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/157080">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/157080</a><br>
Otherwise the "search" should renamed by "name search". <span
class="VIiyi" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b"
data-language-for-alternatives="en"
data-language-to-translate-into="de" data-phrase-index="0"><span>But
I expect more from a search in a map than just a fraction of
the possible search results.<br>
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And when the search on openstreetmap.org (and that is
nominatim ;) ) is not for ordinary consumers, for who the
f*** else? <br>
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