Comment by jsax
3 days ago
That’s frustrating, thank you for the feedback. I’ll take a look at improving the search and potentially switching out the API provider. I currently use open-meteo as I was already using it for the weather forecast (it has a great weather API), and it made sense at the time to keep with a single provider.
I tried searching for "Austin, Texas, United States", "Austin, Texas" and just "Texas" and didn't find very much - not sure if I'm missing how they're indexed, but I'd expect at least one of those to find it!
I opened https://github.com/open-meteo/geocoding-api/issues/33 to keep track of that and will look into it in the next days (supporting it shouldn't be too hard)!
Similarly, "Orlando" returns a bunch of results but "Orlando FL" returns none.
It would also be nice if it suggested results before you finished typing. For example, if I've typed out "orl", then Orlando should be the top suggested result.