Hi. Isn't that pretty much what the current OSM namefinder attempts to do?
e.g. a search for "park near Sydney" or "toilet near Sydney" - Ben. 2009/8/17 James Livingston <[email protected]> > > I'll have a look around to see what's already been done for this, but > it shouldn't be too hard to. If the search is of the form 'X near Y' > then do a place lookup on Y, and if you find Y, then look for nearby > nodes with: > * X is of the form "some text", then look for name=some text > * X is of the form a=b;c=d then look for those (as a power-user thing) > * otherwise use a table of mapping, e.g. toilets -> amenity=toilet, > lakes -> natural=water > >
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