Polygon not returned as Search Result

[nafis042]

Whenever I search a query it always returns as point but not polygon or linestring. I can see the osm_type="R", but in geometry field always shows type="point". how can I get these polygon as geometry?

[dve]

The polygon seems not to be saved in ES, according to https://github.com/komoot/photon/blob/master/src/main/java/de/komoot/photon/PhotonDoc.java. Nominatim seems to "know" the polygon: https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/blob/master/sql/tables.sql So it should be possible to store in ES and deliver it by the service.

Is this not done for a special reason, or did just no one needed the feature?

[lonvia]

Photon only exports the centroid and the bounding box of the geometry from Nominatim. Any polygon or way geometries are lost. Adding full geometries would increase the database size quite a bit.

[ducdigital]

is it possible to config Photon to load geometries in ES too?

[kurko]

Adding full geometries would increase the database size quite a bit.

Perhaps it'd make sense for an option to exist during importation so the user can decide on whether to import it or not.

[GeorgeKontsevik]

I sent the geocoded coordinate to nominatim to get the polygon. This combo worked quite well for me (since the nominatim is very picky for the input address format)