On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 05:52:21PM -0500, John Goodman wrote: > Am I missing something, or is there no way to sort Nominatim > searches on the main OpenStreetMap map page? > > For example, if my map is showing an area of the United States where > I happen to know a mapped Starbucks exists, and I search for > "Starbucks" in the search panel, the entire panel is filled with > Starbucks in Japan. Do the same on a "competitor's" map, and you get > what you expect: the Starbucks that are closest to the current map > view are listed first.
Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan. That's what throwing off Nominatim. Having a wikipedia page boosts the importance of an object. And in this case the boost is quite large because the Starbucks wiipedia page is pretty prominent. Nominatim does take into account the current view (and, yes, the OSM page sends exactly the right parameters for that) but unless explicitly requested, the searches are not bounded. That means the importance of the object is weighted aganst how far away it is from the current map view. In the case of the wikipedia-tagged Starbucks importance wins. To make a long story short: it's a tagging error. The wikipedia tag should contain only links to wikipedia pages describing the object not to pages about the operator. Sarah _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
