Map search

Search and Places share one Search panel. Type a name or address immediately, choose an optional category, or do both. Category suggestions are explicitly labelled Category and only apply when clicked; choosing one consumes the category text. Quick chips toggle on/off, and More categories opens the full catalog. Several categories match with OR semantics. If a filter gives no matches, Search all categories removes it while keeping the query.

All installed data is the default scope. This map area captures a bounding box; moving or zooming the map keeps those results until Search here is clicked. The UI identifies results from the previous area. Query, categories and captured bounds are stored in the URL. Reset all cancels loading and clears the query, filters and markers, returning to the default scope.

Name/address queries use Photon with category tags forwarded to every subdivided request. A category with no text uses the installed Overpass dataset, including nodes, ways and relations, collected in pages of 500 with two requests in flight. Its coverage can differ from Photon if different extracts or update dates were installed. Overpass timeout remarks are treated as incomplete, even with HTTP 200.

In the default scope, search covers the installed dataset independently of the current map view. The map displays all collected matches in numbered clusters; clicking one zooms into its members. Zooming and panning change the presentation, not the result set. Show all fits every match. Individual points retain their address/OSM popups. The sidebar shows up to 40 ranked suggestions so thousands of matches do not create thousands of HTML rows.

Photon normally caps each response at 50 results. Atlas asks for 50 with street deduplication disabled, then splits every full bounding box until its children return fewer results. Repeated OSM IDs on cell boundaries count once. This uses only Photon's HTTP API and does not require Overpass or a new index. External Photon instances must allow at least 50 results per request (the standard default).

Searching runs in a cancellable background task. Changing or clearing the query, Escape, or selecting a suggestion cancels the previous task and discards its late updates. Ranked suggestions remain usable while the rest of the map loads.

Counts describe matches in the installed geocoder, not a live inventory of businesses: related names, old names, parking and other mapped objects may match. Freshness and coverage follow the installed OSM/Photon dataset.

An upstream failure, an overflowing coincident location or an excessively broad query is shown as incomplete, never as a full total. A query uses at most four concurrent requests (two for Overpass), 4096 cells, 32 subdivision levels and approximately 60 seconds (plus any in-flight HTTP timeout). More specific queries can finish sooner.

Cluster counts use accessible HTML buttons and the local application font, so number labels do not require an external glyph server. MapLibre performs the clustering in its worker; only visible clusters and points create DOM markers.

During progressive loading, visible markers stay in place until the worker has indexed the next batch. Nearby clusters reuse their existing marker elements, updating counts and click targets together. A soft halo pulses around clusters and individual points while loading; their bodies and labels remain opaque. The halo stops after the final batch is rendered, and reduced-motion preferences show a static ring. Clearing a search still removes its markers immediately.

Limit results to a city

A city name inside a free-text query is not a geographic boundary. Use City in address to match the city, district or locality supplied in the address data. For example, search for McDonald's with city Berlin. A matching street name in another city does not satisfy the city filter. Places without a city address can be omitted; use This map area when location matters more than address attributes. The city filter is included in shared search URLs.

From a place to a route

Select a result to see its address, then choose Start here or Route here. The same actions appear in map popups. Back to results restores the list. Switching to Directions hides search markers; returning to Search restores them and hides the route. See Directions.

The search area, query and route draft are saved within the browser tab. Returning from Settings or Transport data restores that workspace. A different shared search link takes priority over an older draft.

When results are incomplete

A failed request offers Retry. A limit in ranked geocoder results instead suggests a smaller area or more specific query. Repeating an identical broad query cannot guarantee additional results. All matches loaded describes the collector completing its requests, not an independently verified inventory.