It doesn't take so much to enable a good server search on top of OSM + openaddresses.

Local search will always be slow and bad.

But server search doesn't need that much. It's just that OS initiatives are severely understaffed. OS apps that have a Photon instance are already rare to find. Let's not talk about having an Overpass instance...

What is very hard to reproduce is Google's place review data.

It's golden to enable good search.

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tcfhgj a day ago | parent | next [-]

> What is very hard to reproduce is Google's place review data.

fake anyways (quite easy to get negative comments deleted), and even for bad reviews.

Best look elsewhere or not at all.

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maelito a day ago | parent [-]

I'm not talking about stars, we don't care about stars for search engines.

What's important is people talking about "has air conditioner" in a hotel review or "has vegan" in a restaurant. OSM has none of this data.

	▲	baumschubser 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I just checked (in CoMaps): A restaurant around the corner is listed as "Pizza, Vegan, no wheelchair access, outdoor seating". No opening hours, though (but other places have).

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drnick1 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not like Google reviews can be trusted.