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/search - Search in OSM

Description

With this command you can search OpenStreetMap data in Nominatim, at most ten results.

How to use

Simple search

You can type the command search with words to search (search term). It isn't necessary to type the first letter for places in capital letters. If you want to search New York, you can type:

/search new york

Returns results for «New York».

Searches and languages

OpenStreetMap database is multingual, some places are tagged in more than one language. In this case, you can search in the language that you want. If you are searching for Slovenia country, you can type:

/search Slovenia

Or you also can type:

/search Slovenija

Results are different, but both can find Slovenija (country).

Even you can type something like this (Slovenija in Persian):

/search اسلوونی

And you get the same result: Slovenija.

Better results

You can use commas for better results. Simple example, if you want to search Central Park in New York, you can type:

/search central park

But will get some results for «Central Park» in USA, UK and China. You can get better results typing:

/search central park, usa

Now, all the results are for United States of America. But you can get a better result typing:

/search central park, manhattan, usa

Follow links

Map

Following this link you open the element searched in OpenStreetMap webpage on a browser, or in smartphones you can open the link in OpenStreetMap specific apps like OsmAnd.

/details<OSM_type><OSM_ID>

Following this link, you receive a message with relevant tags. Please see the /details - Info with OSM ID section.

• <OSM_type> refers to three elements in OpenStreetMap: nod (node), way or rel (relation).
• <OSM_ID> refers to unique number to identify an element in OpenStreetMap.

/phone<OSM_type><OSM_ID>

Following this link, you receive a message with phone number. We get phone number from the value in key:phone in OpenStreetMap. If everything it's OK, in smartphones you can press over the phone number to call.

Tags with icons

Results show an emoji if the key=value for the result is defined in typeemoji.py. You can see all tags with icon (emoji) with command /legend, more info on /legend - Emojis for each key=value.

Screenshots

How it works

Nominatim is a search engine for OpenStreetMap data. The bot shows results from Nominatim search. You can see the page «Nominatim» in OSM wiki (documentation) and can report problems with results in this page (button «About&Help» on right-top corner).

This is the same search system that uses the official OpenStreetMap webpage: www.openstreetmap.org .