[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-12-14 10:04 GMT+01:00 Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de>:

> If you type in 'Starbucks' in the search box, then you just get
> objects named that way. No difference with searching for, say Berlin.
>
> Now, if you type 'cafes' in the search box, then you are probably
> looking for all amenity=cafe and that is a POI search. It's true
> that this particular query doesn't work on osm.org. You have to
> additionally specify a place, e.g. 'cafes in Poughkeepsie' actually
> returns the one Starbucks in town.
>


if I search for
"Starbucks in Holland" I get not hit, neither for
"Starbucks in the Netherlands"
"Starbucks in Netherlands"
"Starbucks in Amsterdam"

but "starbucks, Netherlands" yields a lot of results (there's even a
restaurant among them). Btw., also "starbucks, Holland" leads to a lot of
results (not sure if they are the sama, they are in different sorting order
at least). You can even omit the comma, but you shouldn't add an "in"
because this will lead to no results.

Cheers,
Martin
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