[Photon] Possibility to search cities by colloquial names

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 04:52:12PM +0700, Fabian via Photon wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> 
> I was wondering if search for cities by colloquial name is possible?
> 
> I came across the following: Surakarta, known colloquially as Solo, is a
> city in Central Java, Indonesia. (wikipedia)
> 
> The photon query will not yield any usefull result for 'solo'
> (https://photon.komoot.io/api/?q=solo)

The alt_name is imported into Photon. However, it gets a much lower
weight while Nominatim gives all names the same weight. Not to
mention that Photon doesn't do preference of full name match.

In short: it's complicated.

> Meanwhile komoot (which is also using komoot I guess) is giving the right
> result on first place:
> 
> 
> Great list of results! I also want that :)
> Is it somehow posible to optimize the results with komoot alone, or you guys
> think komoot is using here different software under the hood?

They use something different.

Sarah