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If name of place includes comma, searching for it fails #4449

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 1 comment
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If name of place includes comma, searching for it fails #4449

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 1 comment
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Component: nominatim Priority: minor Resolution: wontfix Type: defect

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Reporter: fluteflute
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.30am, Sunday, 17th June 2012]

For example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/122624244 is not found by a search for its name ("Kimpton, Thruxton and Fyfield C of E Primary School")
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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.30pm, Saturday, 30th September 2017]

I agree that this is a missing feature that would be nice to have but it is very unlikely that it is ever going to happen. The comma as separator of address parts is a very fundamental assumption in Nominatim's design. I don't know of any way to change that which would not result in a very hefty performance penalty. And that is simply not worth paying for the rare cases where the comma is part of a name.

So, I'm sorry to say that I have to close this as a 'won't fix' but anything else would be unrealistic.

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