[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

[malenki]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:56:42 -0500,
Greg Troxel wrote:

> Saying that having an option to prefer search results in/near the
> displayed map is useless because going to osm.org defaults to one's
> last view just does not make sense.    It would be perfectly
> reasonable for someone to first find a city, and then search for
> something.

Searching osm.org I do with the bookmarked OSM search using a hotkey in
the browser's address bar.

Now I do use osm.org regularly to look up users, edits, objects etc. So
when I would search for a restaurant or anything it is unforeseeable
which bbox/map view will get loaded. Because of this I said that imho a
"search the bounding box" is of little use (to me).

BTW: As I searched for Starbucks in NYC the map view showed Mali
Valamarës in Albania. :)

Regards
Thomas