[OSM-talk] Name finder and home page search working again

[Abigail Brady]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>
wrote:

> It uses "name", then "place_name" (but only when name is not given),
> then "ref", "iata", "icao", "old_name", and "loc_name" as if these were
> in square brackets after the name as described above. Hence
> "name=Archway Road; ref=A5; loc_name=Traffic Jam From Hell" is treated
> as if it were "name=Archway Road [A5] [Traffic Jam From Hell]".


I like that old_name is indexed now, but I hope it will get tweaked.  As an
example of non-optimal result, searching for "Victoria Road East, Leicester"
pulls out roads which used to be part of Victoria Road East but are now
independent roads, before the actual Victoria Road East - presumably for the
same reason you mention regarding the British Museum, in that it is the
furthest away section which retains the name.

Thanks for all the hard work you have put into this.  It is excellent to
have it back, and especially excellent to know that it will be up-to-date
from now on.


> I have also just tweaked it to include alt_name in this list, but that
> will only apply to new or touched objects until I do a complete reload
> in a few months time.
>

-- 
Abi
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