[Geocoding] New geocoder test system
Peteris Krisjanis
pecisk at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 17:54:48 BST 2009
Btw, I wanted to clarify - does search detects my locale? I
recognized that it gave geographical names in my native language where
it could. Sometimes it gave strange results, but it is nice touch :)
P.
2009/9/30 Brian Quinion <openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk>:
>> Quick check
>> "Alt Hammoor, Mastholte, Germany" does not work
>> "Gerstenkamp, Mastholte, Germany" works
>
> Yes, here you you see it's guess at where the boundary of Mastholte is
> (using the 'details' link when searching for 'Mastholte, Germany':
>
> http://katie.openstreetmap.org/~twain/details.php?place_id=866452
>
> It's very hard to guess these things correctly - for instance this
> would be very large for a village in the uk - more a town so making it
> larger would probably break other places.
>
> BTW - 'Alt Hammoor 36, Germany' does work.
>
> --
> Brian
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