Thread: [SailfishOS] [Announce] Native offline maps: OSM Scout Server
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2018-08-23 , 15:23
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#523
Originally Posted by Fellfrosch View Post
Hi rinigus, two questions, also related to search function:
  • How do I have to enter a search string for OSM Scout Server?
    If I use WhoGo Maps (or soon Pure Maps) I normally use OpenCage or Photon. Both work quite OK. But the search with OSM Scout doesn't really work for me. For example if I want to search for "München" (Munic) I get a lot of results, but non of it is München itself but Münchner Straße, Münchenroth, Münchenroda...
  • I was 3 weeks ago in England, visiting friends. They live quite rural, out of town. So they don't have a house number nor a street name. The only possibility to navigate to them, was using HERE WeGo (Android), because there you can enter the postcode. Is postcode search planned in future releases?
Re München: This has been an issue that was resolved probably few releases ago. It was resolved by sorting the results differently by geocoder-nlp and was raised earlier in this thread due to the similar issue in UK (see linked post by pichlo). When just tested, "München" gave a city as a first result. So, please try with the current version.

Re search string: when all works as it should, libpostal processes the addresses in the natural (for selected languages in OSM Scout Server) order of addresses. In Estonian, that would be street housenr, city, country (commas can be skipped). When it fails for one reason or another (shouldn't be frequent), you could set in OSM Scout Server settings for GeocoderNLP to use primitive parser which will use the same hierarchy sequence as suggested by
pichlo.

Re postcodes: sounds like its a popular request for UK. I have opened an issue regarding it, but haven't worked on it yet. In theory, its possible, since my import pipeline has that data available, at least in part. But I will have to think how to do that. Obviously, libpostal knows how to separate postal code from the address, but the search has to be done by my geocoder.
 

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