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It doesn't take so much to enable a good server search on top of OSM + openaddresses. Local search will always be slow and bad. But server search doesn't need
by maelito 3mo ago
It doesn't take so much to enable a good server search on top of OSM + openaddresses.
Local search will always be slow and bad.
But server search doesn't need that much. It's just that OS initiatives are severely understaffed. OS apps that have a Photon instance are already rare to find. Let's not talk about having an Overpass instance...
What is very hard to reproduce is Google's place review data.
It's golden to enable good search.
- tcfhgj 3mo ago> What is very hard to reproduce is Google's place review data. fake anyways (quite easy to get negative comments deleted), and even for bad reviews. Best look elsewhere or not at all.
- maelito 3mo agoI'm not talking about stars, we don't care about stars for search engines. What's important is people talking about "has air conditioner" in a hotel review or "has vegan" in a restaurant. OSM has none of this data.
- baumschubser 3mo agoI just checked (in CoMaps): A restaurant around the corner is listed as "Pizza, Vegan, no wheelchair access, outdoor seating". No opening hours, though (but other places have).
- drnick1 3mo agoIt's not like Google reviews can be trusted.