[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

[Neil Pilgrim]

Would it not simply be sufficient to list viewport results at the top, ie
having a 'local' and 'global' list? Possibly in a small 'tree' view, in the
sense of being able to hide 'local' and 'global' matches separately? (eg
little triangles rotating to indicate if they're shown)

Selecting other things seems to be a matter of knowing the search phrases,
enhancing them, or how easily they can be found/taught, and really is a
distinct problem IMO.

--
Neil


On Monday, 14 December 2015, Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr at osgeopt.pt> wrote:

> 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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