[talk-ph] Typesense

[Jim Morgan]

I've never been very impressed by the search engine on Openstreetmap. It's extremely literal, so if a road has been entered as Main St, for example, and you search for Main Street, it won't find it.

I just came across this opensource search engine which seems to address this problem, and wondered if it might somehow be used with OSM.

https://typesense.org/

I realize this isn't the best place to mention it, but maybe one of you with access to the higher echelons of OSM and/or an understanding of the technical workings of the search function might be able to experiment, or promote this further somewhere.

Jim