It would be nice to have some shades of grey in there, like a choice of radius, e.g. within 1km, 10km, 100km, 1000km
On 2015-12-14 13:43, Jorge Gustavo Rocha 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 <lon...@denofr.de >> <mailto:lon...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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