<div dir="ltr"><div>I think one of the main use cases for Nominatim (the built-in search tool) is as a QA tool to know if you have mapped something correctly. So it really doesn't do fuzzy searching.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want a more useful search engine, there are tons of alternatives, of which Photon and Pelias are the more popular ones. Others are listed on the OSM Wiki: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:20 PM Jim Morgan <<a href="mailto:jim@datalude.com">jim@datalude.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I've never been very impressed by the search engine on Openstreetmap. It's extremely literal, so if a road has been entered as Main St, for example, and you search for Main Street, it won't find it.<br>
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I just came across this opensource search engine which seems to address this problem, and wondered if it might somehow be used with OSM.<br>
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<a href="https://typesense.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://typesense.org/</a><br>
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I realize this isn't the best place to mention it, but maybe one of you with access to the higher echelons of OSM and/or an understanding of the technical workings of the search function might be able to experiment, or promote this further somewhere.<br>
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Jim<br>
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