[OSM-dev] nominatim-like wildcard search

[Per Eric Rosén]

Hi!

I'm trying to build a autocompletion name lookup for a HTML5-based cycle map. 
Is there any API where you can make wildcard nominatim-style lookups?

For exempel "Bre*" would return "Bremen", "Brenner" etc. I will limit my 
queries by bbox, but other sorting and limiting, like sorting by distance to a 
given point, or place category, would be useful.

I have my own database, so I'm fine with installing my own instance of the API 
if server load would be too high otherwise. Just prefer not re-inventing the 
wheel if it's already there (not much found by google).

Probably somewhat like
http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/a-better-search-field-for-openstreetmap/

Seem to be suggested in
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Version2
but I see no indication of that being implemented ...

best regards
Per Eric
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