[OSM-dev] Bad result from name finder postcode search

[David Earl]

On 09/04/2008 15:09, Chris Jones wrote:
> Searching for "pub near Swansea" sends me to Australia...
> 
> http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/?find=pub+near+Swansea
> 
> Oddly searching for "pubs near Swansea" gives me what I would expect...

That looks like a bug to me. I'll investigate.

If a contextualised search doesn't find any hits (which is presumably 
what is happening here, though it shouldn't be), it drops the context 
and tries again. Unfortunately the search results on 
www.openstreetmap.org don't say this has happened, though the 
information the namefinder provides back does say that's what it did.

I think I might remove this second attempt, as it is almost never what 
you want and always confuses.

David