2009/1/15 Ed Garcia <eppgar...@gmail.com> > I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to > discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on > the main map web page of OSM... > > >>> Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them, > one thing would be really "nice to have" on the OSM main map ... a marker > icon and perhaps a baloon with info indicating the location of a searched > item. > > This is excellent! I tried to search one of the schools I added (Tungkong > Mangga Elementary School) with the keyword tungkong and was so pleased with > what OSM displayed. > > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.78758&lon=121.07228&zoom=17&layers=B000FTT > > Now perfect for POI searching! > > Question ... I tried to search by "vicinity" like: "hotels in boracay" > and it does not show any items. I was wishing the search can be enhanced so > that it has the ability to shortlist by category and by location, I thought > this would be possible since the POIs will have the tourism=x and is_in: > tags anyway. This is how resorts are organized in WaypointsDotPH. If this > can be done in OSM, then traveller queries like that of Jim Morgan can > easily be answered by the search facility of OSM. >
The namefinder uses 'near' rather than 'in', so you search for "hotels in boracay" would be written as "hotels near boracay", which returns no results for some reason... doing a search for "hotels near manila" returns some results though, so it's at least finding some data (and not all of them have hotel in the name)... I don't know if the name finder uses is_in tags though, I have a feeling it works on distance between objects, so, between a place named boracay and an object tagged with tourism=hotel... (actually http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Search suggests that is_in tags are used but, it seems, only when reducing the matches of a place, i.e. "hotels in bonifacio, manila" to avoid matching a place with bonifacio in it's name elsewhere in the world and finding all hotels near there...) d
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