Could there also be sorting options for the result set? For example by distance (nearest first), importance (the current algorithm?), ...
And how about filters to show what you are looking for: returning places, POIs, roads, ... //colin 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 <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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