[openstreetmap-website] lat/lon search results can be too generic (#511)

Martin Raifer notifications at github.com
Tue Oct 15 09:17:19 UTC 2013


After #509, the search tool on the website uses nominatim to get a list of real object for a lat/lon search term. Which makes sense. But, under some circumstances the results are too generic:

1. start with a [zoomed out](http://osm.org/go/bLuR-) map
2. search for a set of coordinates, e.g. `52.2575, 4.786667`
3. get "European Union" as the result instead of a list of features that are actually at the given location

I guess it would be safe to assume that a user doesn't want to search learge scale features if entering coordinates. I mean, one can't get any more specific than using coordinates, can one?

Another case is when there are no features at/around the searched coordinates the results may lie far from the actually searched coordinates.

1. start with a zoomed in map
2. search for `77.0, 100.0`
3. the only search result is at `72.56819, 94.76948` which is about 500km away.

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