[Photon] Q: can photon search on tags? Can I add it?

[Christoph Lingg]

Hi Sachin,

thanks for your feedback. Photon searches in much more than name, also street country, housnumber, postcode and administrative levels. 

We are already including a bunch of name variants, like loc_name. 

Reg name is not used very often, see http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/reg_name <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/reg_name>. Anyway, you were just writing at a moment when I was working on the importer, so I just  regional names to the photon index. see https://github.com/komoot/photon/commit/a8bc9b255ddffd47103172b579e47fd38c642786 <https://github.com/komoot/photon/commit/a8bc9b255ddffd47103172b579e47fd38c642786>

We are currently working on reimporting new data, if we are lucky we will have a new photon version by the end of this week. Keep the finger crossed.

Cheers,
Christoph

> Am 12.01.2015 um 13:09 schrieb Sachin Dole <sdole at genvega.com>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can photon search on other tags than just name? For example, if you search for "Big Island", photon does not return the main island of United States state of Hawai'i. On nominatim, it returns correctly. In this case, the "name" of the relation is "Hawai'i" but "reg_name" is "Big Island" and nominatim search correctly. If photon currently does not allow for this, can I try to add this ability on a fork? I will have to start from scratch (create a new database etc), and I have no problem doing so if indeed it is needed. If it already exists, it will be great if you can show me an example on http://photon.komoot.de/ <http://photon.komoot.de/>
> 
> THANKS a lot!
> 
> Best,
> Sachin Dole
> 
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