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First search result for "Columbia, TN" returns a county in Washington #2967

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jeph36 opened this issue Feb 3, 2023 · 2 comments
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jeph36 commented Feb 3, 2023

What did you search for?

Search text is "Columbia, TN".
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html?q=Columbia%2C+TN

What result did you get?

First search result is Columbia County, WA, near Walla Walla, WA.

What result did you expect?

The correct result of Columbia, TN, south of Nashville, is listed 2nd on the list.

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Searching for "Columbia, Tennessee" returns the expected result.

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lonvia commented Feb 4, 2023

Thai is causing trouble here. The Washington name of 'รัฐวอชิงตัน ' gets transliterated to 'rth wx chng tn'.

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lonvia commented Aug 8, 2023

We are now tracing scripts, so that matches of Latin input against non-Latin script is heavily penalized.

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