[Marble-devel] Thoughts on openstreetmap

[Henry de Valence]

I was doing some thinking about the osm maps, and I thought of a couple issues 
and how they might be solved.

Easy to fix (?):

0) It would be good to make the listview / navigation border adjustable so 
that you have more space to see the items in the list view.

1) Can we disable the auto-centre on search-as-typed? It's really irritating 
when you have zoomed in a long way and then suddenly you jump halfway around 
the world while looking for a street...

More complicated:

a) Openstreetmap Namefinder search is not specific.
Maybe it's just boring North American cities with non-unique street names, but 
looking for streets I often end up with results that are totally irrelevant 
and nowhere near what I am looking for. Also I think it may be limited to 30 
results.
Ideas:
* weight results based on distance from centre of the view AND the zoom level; 
ie if you are zoomed in to seeing city blocks, it will not give results in a 
different country, but if you have zoomed out to see the world it will not be 
weighted at all; the amount of bias is proportional to the zoom level. 
Unfortunately since the OSM search is actually done on the server I don't know 
how this would be accomplished.

b) OSM search doesn't work on cached data.