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Search for location not reliable

Open Dirk71 opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Searching for locations (cities) does often not work. Even big cities are often missing in the search results.

Dirk71 avatar Oct 26 '21 09:10 Dirk71

Can you be a bit more explicit ? Some example would help. Note that uMap is using Photon under the hood, with location bias (closer results have more weight).

yohanboniface avatar Nov 01 '21 18:11 yohanboniface

Example: I am searching for the city "Soest"....no results appear. If I search for "Bad Sassendorf" which is close to Soest, I get results. Or I try to find the city "Fulda"...and I don't get any results for this city. Instead I get streets with this name but not the city as search result.

Dirk71 avatar Nov 01 '21 18:11 Dirk71

...by the way....good you have an eye on uMap....looking forward for some enhancements. Thank you, Yohan for this!

Dirk71 avatar Nov 01 '21 18:11 Dirk71

i can confirm this. The search often does not find the city you are looking for, regardless of the size of the city. I am also not entirely clear about the presentation of the results. when I search for a city, it shows me all sorts of things, the city I am looking for appears somewhere in the list or not at all.

googie0815 avatar Nov 16 '21 13:11 googie0815

You might want to report issues about Photon here: https://github.com/komoot/photon

davidbgk avatar May 05 '23 19:05 davidbgk