[OSM-talk] name finder: "pubs near Cambridge"

Andy Street mail at andystreet.me.uk
Thu May 24 13:25:06 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 10:55 +0100, David Earl wrote:
> In updating the index for the name finder (
> http://www.frankieandshadow.com/osm ) to this week's planet file, I have
> added some capabilities, which with some remarkably minor changes give a big
> increase in functionality:

Great stuff, thanks for your hard work.

> 4. The word 'near'(*) is equivalent to a comma: this is just syntactic
> sugar, but it reads more naturally in some cases.

Is it possible to add "in" too? Someone organising a night out is
probably more likely to search for "pubs in Portsmouth" than "pubs near
Portsmouth".

Regards,

Andy





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