Hey Martijn,<div><br></div><div>I hope I can give some constructive criticism:</div><div>The idea is perfect but it does not help for me (at this alpha stage). It even is worse to be honest then without suggestions.</div><div>
I'll explain why. When you type a word and at the first characters you see already results.</div><div>These results don't give any good options, yes they match the typed characters but not the result you like to have.</div>
<div>Try Amsterdam. Only at Amsterda then it suggested that you want Amsterdam. But in Holland you'd like already with Amst</div><div>that it suggest Amsterdam and Amstelveen etc. 99% sure you don't want "Grove Ct, Lisletown, Fayette, Kentucky, United States of America". :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>So IMHO we need the following:</div><div>[brainstorm mode]</div><div>- Give points for each search on a string which gives an result. Give suggestions based on all that has more then 1 point sorted on points descending. (life time of a point is smth like 60 days)</div>
<div>- Give suggestions based on your country. So IMO make a formula for search points of foreign countries vs your current country (based on your IP). Smth like:</div><div>search_suggestions = max ( descending ( current country suggestions + surrounding_country suggestions / 2 + other countries / 5 ) ; 10)</div>
<div>[/brainstorm mode]</div><div><br></div><div>In this way the system then will work is that the good & best & top results in your country are shown with the best & top ones in the surrounding countries and only the top ones in the world.</div>
<div>This is most likely the result you like. Now you see very nice towns in China but for sure you will never want these _here_ in the Netherlands as a result but for sure if you are in (the right part of) China.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Frenzel</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/5 Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<div><br></div><div>The lack of "auto-complete" or search suggestions like you see in for example Google (maps) and the OSM wiki search box has been bugging me for a while. So I created a prototype based on the Nominatim API and the Google Closure JS framework. There's a lot of things it won't do yet, but it's a decent first step. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Give it a try, I will put the source in SVN if you want to get your hands dirty with this. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/mvexel/nominatim/" target="_blank">http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/mvexel/nominatim/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Martijn</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>martijn van exel +++ <a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank">m@rtijn.org</a><br>laziness - impatience - hubris<br><a href="http://schaaltreinen.nl/" target="_blank">http://schaaltreinen.nl/</a><br>
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