[talk-ph] Typesense

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

I think one of the main use cases for Nominatim (the built-in search tool)
is as a QA tool to know if you have mapped something correctly. So it
really doesn't do fuzzy searching.

If you want a more useful search engine, there are tons of alternatives, of
which Photon and Pelias are the more popular ones. Others are listed on the
OSM Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:20 PM Jim Morgan <jim at datalude.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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