With 103 open issues and 12 open pull requests, I would love to volunteer to at least help get those cleared first. Given the (very positive, I am glad so many people are acting on this thread) activity, I think if everybody lends a couple of hours of code this week we can get nominatim ready to make some progress.
2018-02-18 20:12 GMT+01:00 Maarten Deen <[email protected]>: > On 2018-02-18 20:07, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Maarten Deen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2018-02-18 19:28, Tom Hughes wrote: > > >>> I can't comment about how the algorithm works because I don't know >>> anything about it. I'm just saying that we do tell it the viewbox >> >> >> It appears to me that the bounding box is used when searching places >> (towns, cities) or streets, but not when searching objects like shops >> or restaurants. >> For instance, searching for a McDonald's always gives me the >> McDonald's at 1351, George Dieter Drive, El Paso City, El Paso County, >> Texas, 79936, Verenigde Staten van Amerika >> >> Keen ask. I think a _lot_ of the complaints regarding Nominatim that >> have come up could be fixed by using the bounding box context for all >> items. I may have incorrectly opened an Osmand bug [1] on the >> assumption Nominatim was consistently using the geocontext for all >> results. > > > I've opened a Nominatim bug for it. > https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/930 > > > Maarten > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Milo van der Linden web: dogodigi tel: +31-6-16598808 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
