[OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org

[David Earl]

Andy Allan wrote:
> It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on
> improving the search (primarily David Earl), so it's a known issue
> that's being worked on rather than something that's being ignored.

Indeed. I am currently reloading the index from the planet file. The 
index hasn't been updated since January. Once reloaded it should then be 
kept up to date as before.

The reload from scratch hasn't been done for nearly 18 months. In that 
time the planet file has grown enormously, so it is taking much longer 
than before (although that may also be down to the method, which is 
slightly different, to deal with the problems that caused us to suspend 
updates in the first place).

The first two attempts also failed - finger trouble and the duff planet 
file last week.

So it will be a while yet, but I am indeed working on it.

David