Your right. Minh brought it up, you responded to him, and then I responded to your comment. My bad. That said, your the one who keeps bringing it up as a talking point. It wasn’t and isn’t something I think matters to this regardless of who first brought it up though.
It’s possible we are talking about different problems. My problem is that if you have two Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, with one being in Japan and one being in the United States and where both have brand:wikidata=Q524757 the search results will give you the restaurant in Japan. Even if the bbox is in Northern California when you do the search. So how exactly is brand:wikidata=Q524757 at all relevant there? Both restaurants have the tag. I assume Nominatim assigns both the same weight. So it literally has zero effect on the search results.
I’m not fixed on anything. Like I said before, this was originally a discussion about Nominatim’s inconstant search results when people want to find KFC restaurants until Tordanik moved it from the original discussion. This discussion wouldn’t have been started or matter at all if it wasn’t for that though and it’s always been about Nominatim on my end. I didn’t create the title of this discussion or put it in this category and I’ve never claimed it was a general discussion about tagging. No where have I said we should “tag for Nominatim” either. Personally, I just want to be able to find a KFC restaurant in the United when I search for one, which I think would be accomplished by changing the tagging. That doesn’t mean I’m “fixed on tagging,” I could ultimately care less what solution results in me being able to find KFCs in the United United States, but no one including you has posed another solution beside re-tagging them.
No I don’t. I’ve said multiple times that there is no “common” or “correct” way to tag KFCs in the United States because they are known as both KFC and Kentucky Fried Chicken about as equally here.
I’m merely suggesting a solution to the inconsistent search results in a discussion forum. In no way is that “enforcing my set of tags” on anything or anyone.
Not to speak for SimonPole, but you asked if the search takes the bbox into account and he said it did. That sounds pretty clear to me. As far as I know it does. There’s a couple of comments on Nominatim’s Github page like here where [kshmidman says “we restrict results with bbox.” There’s also this issue that relates to Using OSM location to increase importance. So I assume that’s something it also does. Maybe both are failing in this case though. But the fact that it only occurs when I search for KFC in the United States makes me think that’s not what’s going on.
No really? Where have I ever said otherwise. What part of “there is no common name for Kentucky Fried Chicken in the United States” translates into “Kentucky Fried Chicken shouldn’t be called “ケンタッキーフライドチキン” in Japan” to you?
That’s not what I’m proposing.
I don’t really care should be or not. I was merely using it as an example of where if you search for KFC in a specific country like Japan the results are for that country. Whereas, if you do a search for KFC in the United States they aren’t. That’s it.
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instead of “blaming” the search system
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Yeah OK. Me saying the search results don’t work in the United States and trying to find a solution for that is “blaming the search system.” Sure, whatever you say dude. Do you have anything actually constructive to add to this discussion are you are just here to insult me and repeatedly mischaracterize my position?
