<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi,<br><br>I tried this and could not confirm. It does not matter if I use the link or the page I get same results.<br>(I donīt know if this mailinglist is the right place to ask, so perhaps ask on the openstreetmap list.)<br><br>best regards<br>Sarah<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><br></font><br><br>Hello,<br><br><span>If I enter on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">www.openstreetmap.org</a> as a search term "Marienplatz Muenchen"</span><br>I get a few hits which all belong to Munich as bavarian capital. Thats fine.<br>All hits come from
OpenStreetMap Nominatim, this service I would like to use<br>for geo coding in my application. Based on their Wiki this URL should do the<br>job: <br><br><a href="http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=xml&polygon=0&addressdetails=0&q=Marienplatz+Muenchen" target="_blank">http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=xml&polygon=0&addressdetails=0&q=Marienplatz+Muenchen</a><br><br>This request returns 7 hits and most of them do NOT refer to Munich.<br><br>This request in turn works fine:<br><br><a href="http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=xml&polygon=0&addressdetails=0&q=Marienplatz+Munich" target="_blank">http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=xml&polygon=0&addressdetails=0&q=Marienplatz+Munich</a><br><br>Anyone an idea why I do get different result sets?<br><br>Thanks.<br>-- <br>View this message in context: <a
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