Online search does not find Laliderer Wand. Why? How can we improve it?
Locus' Online Search for Laliderer Wand produces zero results. Online search tells it's powered by LoSearch, GraphHopper and OSM
- for LoSearch, it's unclear which service is behind it, maybe current places search provider referenced in this idea
- in https://explorer.graphhopper.com switch to Geocoding API and set params to q=Laliderer Wand and you get the desired result
- OSM does contain the accordingly named node https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/526232453
so without a look into the code, it's hard to understand why online search produces zero results.
Would be great if it produced a result – maybe by also asking Nominatim and/or Wikidata and/or wikipedia.org (more tricky due to different languages' namespaces) additionally to the current providers, then filtering out dupes i.e. results having identical name and being very close and maybe also having similar category/kind.
In case this peak is categorized as climbing spot by you and thus not appearing in the results: Sorry for the dupe.
Some more details & thoughts from very old Locus search system which is AFAIK not any more present, see https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/search_others_osm_nominatim
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Hi Georg,
after intense discussions quite some time ago and a longer pause, in a recent update the old search has become an alternate function for online search in LM 4 (it is using the Google engine as one option). Just tried the place from the title and it gives you Vomp, right below that mointain.
I 100% agree that the new search function has a long way to go, and in the end it might never match what Google offers for geographical search. Hence I appreciate very much this workaround.
Hi Georg,
after intense discussions quite some time ago and a longer pause, in a recent update the old search has become an alternate function for online search in LM 4 (it is using the Google engine as one option). Just tried the place from the title and it gives you Vomp, right below that mointain.
I 100% agree that the new search function has a long way to go, and in the end it might never match what Google offers for geographical search. Hence I appreciate very much this workaround.
Hi Georg. 'Laliderer' produces many results, 'Laliderer wand' produces 2. We checked three languages even though this should not be relevant in this case (as language in the OSM node tags is not specified). So we don't know what is going on. If the problem persist (some server response time-out is not ruled out), please tell us more about your setup so we can replicate and fix.
Hi Georg. 'Laliderer' produces many results, 'Laliderer wand' produces 2. We checked three languages even though this should not be relevant in this case (as language in the OSM node tags is not specified). So we don't know what is going on. If the problem persist (some server response time-out is not ruled out), please tell us more about your setup so we can replicate and fix.
I also got two results in Austria
I also got two results in Austria
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