[talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

[Mike Collinson]

At 06:37 AM 15/01/2009, D Tucny wrote:
>The namefinder uses 'near' rather than 'in', so you search for "hotels in boracay" would be written as "hotels near boracay", which returns no results for some reason... doing a search for "hotels near manila" returns some results though, so it's at least finding some data (and not all of them have hotel in the name)... I don't know if the name finder uses is_in tags though, I have a feeling it works on distance between objects, so, between a place named boracay and an object tagged with tourism=hotel... (actually <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Search>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Search suggests that is_in tags are used but, it seems, only when reducing the matches of a place, i.e. "hotels in bonifacio, manila" to avoid matching a place with bonifacio in it's name elsewhere in the world and finding all hotels near there...)

I suspect the reason will be that Boracay is in as an island and the Namefinder service is not yet searching place=island - the service is down right now so I cannot confirm that.  When it comes up, try 'hotels near Malay"

Mike 
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