[OSM-dev] Namefinder - what to do

[Tom Hughes]

In message <4799FDE5.20105 at arjam.net>
        Robert Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:

> This probably isn't namefinders fault, but I just tried searching for
> OX1 3HZ on the OSM home page, and I was taken to the wrong place,
> several miles north of Oxford. It seems npemap.org.uk gives the same
> result. Where is it getting this from?

It is going there because it only gets one result - if it gets one
result then it just goes there instead of popping up a list.

In this case npemaps tells it OX1 3## can be found at that location
and the name finder returns no result.

> I should be presented with the best guess location based on averaging
> the results of just the start of the postcode - OX1 3**, at a low-ish
> zoom level, and with a message that id can't find the exact place.

That is an averaged location. There is no zoom hint provided by
the npemap geocoder so a default is used. I guess it could look to
see if the code ends ## and use a lower zoom in that case.

Tom

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