>> A better way around that would be some way to tell Osmand what kind of thing we're looking for (street, city, store, lake, river, ...)
Yes, this is exactly what I intended! No need to show up streets, squares and PDI when user is looking for a city/town. BTW, if you do a POI search, it is already possible to choose the desired categories (i.e. Food, Accommodation, Parking, Sport, etc.): cities, towns, hamlets and streets/squares should be considered as "categories" as well... Max Il giorno mer 3 ott 2018 alle ore 14:06 Stefan Monnier < monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> ha scritto: > > But if the destination is very far and I don't know where it is/I'm in > > hurry/I'm too lazy to scroll the map around :), what happens you can see > in > > the attached picture: it shows all matches found in a range of about 15 > Km > > from current position, while Rome (city) is located as far as about 500 > Km > > from here. I would have to scroll the list "a little more" before finding > > the entry "Rome - City" among all that stuff... > > FWIW, I think it makes sense to keep "Rome - city" far down the list in > that case (the search can't know what kind of "roma" you're looking for, > so if it has to mostly ignore distance as a criterion, it would end up > having to list cities named Rome in far away countries as well). > > A better way around that would be some way to tell Osmand what kind of > thing we're looking for (street, city, store, lake, river, ...). > > > Stefan > -- <>========== :-) I Piccoli Pirati dell'Aria URL: http://www.piccolipirati.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
