Osm cannot find `Urządz pocztowy` when I typed `poczta` in search bar

[damian....@gmail.com]

Hello,

When I was nearby this place https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.13223/23.15812, I opened the search bar and typed `poczta` (ang. post office). Unfortunately the application didn't find this https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3034487305.

My question is, how the search can be improved in such situation?

[Xavier]

When I look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3034487305 I see the
name tag shown as (shortened to the first six letters):

Poczto

You indicated you typed:

poczta

The difference is the final letter, an "o" in OSM data and an "a" in
what you indicated you typed.

Therefore, as the two differ, I would not expect the app to find
"poczto" from "poczta" using the name tag data.

Where I do see "poczta" is in the operator tag. Which would imply that
the contents of the operator tag are not utilized when searching for a
POI. Overall this seems reasonable, as most users would be searching
for a name, not an operator, since the operator may often have a value
seemingly unrelated to the usual name of an establishment.

[Tom Crocker]

I know nothing about the internationalisation of OSM, but if I type "post office" in the search bar it gives me the option to search for Post Office Service (amenity=post_office). On the Polish page for that tag it gives the alternative udogodnienie= poczta https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pl:Tag:amenity%3Dpost_office

It would be useful if that was available but I don't know how it works.

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