[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi,

I think that we can add an option to bound the results to the current 
viewport. That option would be passed to nominatim or any other search 
engine.

Personally, I would prefer the search bounded by default, but users 
could change it to "everywhere" to see additional results.

Regards,

J. Gustavo

Às 11:17 de 14-12-2015, Martin Koppenhoefer escreveu:
>
> 2015-12-14 10:04 GMT+01:00 Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de
> <mailto: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 <http://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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