How to improve OSM search results

General talk
1

Hello all,

I am new to the community and I want to help lend any programming skills, or skills in general to help improve OSM. Particularly I think improvement is needed in search functionality, particularly being able to parse generic input such as “Bishop Bar Bloomington Colorado”.

Is there a way to directly help improve the search functionality of OSM? I havent done much research yet, but any additional information on where programming skills can be lended to OSM would be appreciated too.

2

Searching of OSM tools is done by third party tools, in particular Nominatim. They are open source, so you can see how they work,a and presumably submit proposed improved code.

3

see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines for details and all available OSM based search engines.