On 2015-12-14 09:34, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 08:45:38AM +0100, Maarten Deen wrote:
On 2015-12-14 01:02, Tom Hughes wrote:
>On 13/12/15 22:52, John Goodman wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>That shouldn't happen as we we pass the current view to Nominatim and
>it is supposed to prioritise results in that area.
Then that logic is seriously flawed (if not broken).
I noticed this yesterday, and I did this again just now. I opened
OSM and I get the map at [1]. I look for Thorn (which for me is a
town in the Netherlands [2] )
The first results (now and yesterday) are (in that order)
- City Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
- Administrative Boundary Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship,
Poland
- County Boundary Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
- Suburb Boundary Thorn, Maasgouw, Province of Limburg, Netherlands,
The Netherlands
The first three are basically the same and have a name:de=Thorn.
This is the same problem of importance. Reordering according to
your search query does happen but is weighted against importance.
Torun is much more important than the suburb in the Netherlands,
so it wins.
I fail to see how a town that has a translation in a language that is
not my own could be so much more important than a town in the country I
live in, that searches a mere 10,5 km away make that town not put first.
Let me stress the point of "translation in a language that is not my
own" again. For me, that is a name that has close to 0 importance
because I don't speak the language. Furthermore, as a user I am puzzled
by why this other town is so much more important. The translated name is
not shown, I see "Toruń" as first result and think "why is this a result
when I search for Thorn?"
Regards,
Maarten
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