[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[Dean Earley]

David Earl wrote:
> I have implemented a prototype for my long-proposed name searching. So it is
> now possible to search for data in the OSM map by name in context.
>   http://www.frankieandshadow.com/osm/
> While you can search for e.g. 'High Street' as you could previously (and get
> back potentially vast numbers of answers), the power of this search is that
> you can qualify it by place: 'High Street, Chesterton' to constrain the
> results.

Oh wow!

I put in my road and almost instantly:
"Street Oatlands Road less than 1km from middle of hamlet Boorley Green 
(which is about 2km from middle of town Hedge End and about 9km from 
city Southampton in England, Hampshire) found"

I guess it gives priority to older "objects" in the db?

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