[OSM-talk] Namefinder translations
Ben Laenen
benlaenen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 19:32:05 GMT 2008
On Monday 24 November 2008, David Earl wrote:
> I'm also reconsidering adding "in" as well as "near" (and comma) as
> the separator. The problem is that there are a couple of place names
> in England which have "In" in their names - Henley-In-Arden for
> example. (A second problem is that since it works only by proximity,
> "in" will yeild things that are wildly not "in" somewhere, but that's
> outweighed by what people naturally type, I think).
I think that any search for "in" is better if it will give results that
are "near" (but not "in") as well (googlemaps does that for example),
so I don't see that as a problem really.
"near" is also unnatural to use when you look for a location "in" a
place, as it seems to exclude anything that's in it.
Ben
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