<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Andy,<br> it seems that now the empty space in the middle is<br>not escaped properly.<br></div><div><br>Thanks for the report, just fixed this.<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> BTW, where does this name database come from? I have<br>found some<br><br></div><span>OpenStreetMap is using the worldKit geocoder - <a target="_blank" href="http://brainoff.com/geocoder/">http://brainoff.com/geocoder/</a></span><br>The names db comes from the GEOnet Names Database<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">very interesting old names with exact lat/long data.<br> Can the database be extended by the OSM users ?<br><br></div><span>Not yet, but it is planned - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/ticket/5">http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/ticket/5</a></span><br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Unfortunately, there is no support for non-ascii<br>utf-8 searches.<br></div>The GNS database only contains ascii. Plan is to remove diacritics from characters, prior to lookup.<br><br>-Mikel<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>