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Not to mention that searching for "Conroe, TX" and taking the first, correct-sounding result got me ~10 miles south of city limits. The search box on the OSM f
by rmc 13y ago
Not to mention that searching for "Conroe, TX" and taking the first, correct-sounding result got me ~10 miles south of city limits.
The search box on the OSM front page uses Nominatim, which also has it's own website. Here's the search results for that: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Conroe%2C+TX&viewbox=-119.54%2C47.7%2C119.54%2C-47.7 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Conroe%2C+TX... You can see the 2 results there http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=42740484 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=4274... and http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=98157421 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=9815... There's a "Report Problem" button to help debug issues like this. Feel free to submit a bug!
I think Nominatim tries to rank things based on how long their Wikipedia article, the the item to the south (that was at the top), is the one that links to Wikipedia. TBH it looks like bad mapping whoever put that there