[openstreetmap-website] Rationalize multiple "locate me" type functions (#373)

pnorman notifications at github.com
Tue Jul 23 01:43:46 UTC 2013


For me zooming out doesn't work, it is often hard to see the name of the region and province you are in from the map.

I frequently have to go from a changeset to the map to a reverse geocode.

That being said, I recognize my use is a specialized one.

Some more facts:

I got the hits for June on the various geocoder URLs

```
URL                                 hits
/geocoder/search_osm_nominatim    1,019,096
/geocoder/search                    888,042
/geocoder/search_geonames           813,151
/geocoder/search_latlon              36,398
/geocoder/description                 9,363
/geocoder/description_osm_nominatim   9,316
/geocoder/description_geonames        9,280
/geocoder/search_uk_postcode          7,392
/geocoder/search_us_postcode          5,316
/geocoder/search_ca_postcode            608
other                                    19
```

Just for reference, I there are 103,927 hits on browse map data.

search probably gets more hits per use with people trying multiple searches to get what they want while description won't get multiple hits per use, but still probably a 200:1 to 750:1 use difference between them.

I think it is important to keep some way to reverse geocode, so how about this? Right now if you leave the search box blank and hit enter you get back nothing from Nominatim and a meaningless list of results from GeoNames. Instead what about doing a reverse geocode, like the "Where am I?" link does right now.

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