[talk-au] Basic search, first attempt

[John Smith]

--- On Sat, 8/8/09, James Livingston <doctau at mac.com> wrote:

> I'm sure there are *lots* of places with the same name, a
> couple more  

I was hoping to make it easy for people so they don't need to enter the state, but there isn't enough info in the OSM database to distinguish between them, and I guess I'll search the duplicate place names and add the most significantly mapped area as first preference.

Also I think I improved the street lookup section of the code, seems a little faster and it shows the distance from the place you supplied in the search.

Until suitable postcode boundaries and place=* nodes are in place it will be interesting to distinguish between towns in the same state.