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Originally Posted by ralooyar View Post
Thanks for the workaround.

No need to hurry. I do not urgently need this functionality. I just stumbled upon this issue while playing with the POI data.

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Other question on the topic POI:

Do you do some kind of tag merging, when creating the OSM Scout Server database? In OsmAnd I can search for POI with tag "amenity _library" or "amenity_police". In OSM Scout Server database libraries and police stations in my hometown can be found, but only by their name. And the type is listed by PoorMaps as "Building".

In my opinion, it would be helpful, to be able to explicitly search for "libraries" or "police stations" by tag, since if I am new in town, I don't know the name of the library. What do you think about this? Should I file a github issue?
Yes, please file the issue. Since its geocoder component, please file it at https://github.com/rinigus/geocoder-nlp

As far as I remember, types are merged in the import and assigned as only one for POI. Hence the problem.

Keep digging into POIs and other components. When designing geocoder, I was mainly focused on getting results by name since that was really poor. Now it's time to look into search by type as in nearby search and make it work well. I suspect that the database will have to be redesigned, but let's see how.
 

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