Author: FK270673
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.29pm, Thursday, 21st May 2009]

I have experienced the same problem with Schwanhorstberg, Axstedt.

Maybe because it was first handled by Mapnik (on Wednesday) and later by Osmarender.

Maybe it would be a good idea to create a new database with all entries, not just adding the latest modifications from Osmarender.

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.33pm, Thursday, 21st May 2009]

I don't think the namefinder database has been updated for some time, which probably explains this.

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.36pm, Thursday, 21st May 2009]

Replying to [comment:1 FK270673]:

I have experienced the same problem with Schwanhorstberg, Axstedt.

Maybe because it was first handled by Mapnik (on Wednesday) and later by Osmarender.

Maybe it would be a good idea to create a new database with all entries, not just adding the latest modifications from Osmarender.

Neither mapnik nor osmarender have anything to do with the namefinder database.

Author: FK270673
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.17pm, Tuesday, 16th June 2009]

Second observation:

I changed Barbianstrasse in Chur to Barblanstrasse, but namefinder didn't accept that correction.

Author: skliarie[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.07pm, Tuesday, 18th August 2009]

I don't know whether the bug is related: When I search in http://www.openstreetmap.org for

israel jerusalem yad harutzim

I get nothing, but if I search only for
yad harutzim

The street is found correctly.

Should I file separate bug on that?

Author: Eero
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.14pm, Thursday, 17th September 2009]

I have the same problem. For example "vihermentie, espoo" or just "vihermentie" finds nothing. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29260538

Author: skliarie[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.31am, Monday, 14th December 2009]

Any update on the bug?

I would raise priority of all search related bugs, as users who had any remnants of trust in OSM map service simply switch to different mapping services, with no hope of coming back...

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.36am, Monday, 14th December 2009]

You are aware that there is a new search engine operating on the web site now alongside namefinder I assume?

Author: skliarie[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.17am, Monday, 14th December 2009]

No, I just enter http://www.openstreetmap.org and type there the search query. This is the way 99% of users do the search on the site I guess.

See my note from 08/18/09 20:07:36

Also, today I did search for Rechovot and haven't got any results. Once I found it manually, I saw that the city had en:name tag "Rehovot". IMHO, the search engine must be smart enough to attempt to search for similar names (by substituting "ch" with "h" or replacing dash with space (New-York="New York"), or substitute all these european languages characters with diacritics with their english similarly-looking equivalents...).

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.19am, Monday, 14th December 2009]

The search box on the main page does use both engines, but nominatim (the new engine) only does exact matches at the moment - the author is still working on getting it to do near matches like that. I believe it does ignore diacritical marks however.

Author: iandees
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.48pm, Monday, 9th September 2013]

Cleaning aging tickets.