Forum: General Topics

On a few occasions I have tried to "navigate" to a specific location, but there seems to be no easy to do this.

For instance, say you just want to see the street map of Miami, Florida. Entering Miami as the search criteria in Web gives you 3-4 hits, with different distances. There is no simple (if at all any) way of knowing which is which or telling the program to take you there to, say, set a waypoint somewhere over there. In this case, navigating there from abroad is simply not an option - there are no streets/roads to create a route.

I can "fly" there by zooming out, finding Florida and Miami, then zooming in, but it could be impractical/impossible in some cases.

To summarize: Would be nice to be able to search for a location and click "Take me there".

Alfonso

Thanks! That worked.

I take it search criteria do not include countries/cities, right? In other words, the 4 "Miami" hits I get are all streets, not the city.

Just to see this, I searched for Haiti, no results.

Alfonso

That's odd, both Haiti and Miami (the city) are returned when I tried it just now. The next release uses a new version of CloudMade's 'geocoding' functions, which gives a bit more address info in the Waypoint 'description' field. However, I tried it in the old version too and it still worked. (I got the 4 Miami results - Florida, plus other ones in Honduras, Oklahoma and Canada).

Make sure the Search Radius is set large enough in the Web/Find Place menu (or set it to Global). The search criteria *should* find streets, cities, countries and POIs, as long as they are mapped in OpenStreetMap. The new version can also take POI types, eg searching for 'Restaurants' with a 5km radius should find nearby restaurants, though this obviously depends on the completeness of the raw OpenStreetMap data...!

Cheers,
Stephen