On 18/02/18 17:45, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 18/02/18 17:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
On the OSM homepage, can we use the visible area (or maybe that plus
an exploded offset to a larger surrounding bounds) as a bonding box to
be passed to Nominatim for some context when searching? This
animation really drives the problem home.
We already do exactly that.
Sarah can clarify the details but we pass the bounding box to Nominatim
and I believe it expands that by a factor of two and then prefers any
results in that area over those further afield.
Incidentally if you use https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ you can
experiment with the affect of the viewbox parameter that we pass by
checking and unchecking the "apply viewbox" checkbox beside the search
button and zooming moving the map to choose a box.
Tom
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