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Location Search

mwp provides a geographical search using natural language. This requires an internet connection as it uses the Open Street Map Nominatim. From the "View/Location Search ..." menu option.

Search queries are free text place name search items, separated by + sign, for example Castletown or Castletown+Isle of Man.

  • Menu option

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  • Search for the place "Castletown"

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  • Rather a lot of results, should have searched for "Castletown+Isle of Man"

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  • Select the first item (the one I wanted), map is zoomed.

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  • In the late 1980s, the author lived and worked in Sakai City, Osaka; let's search for that, in Japanese 堺市:

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  • There is only one result:

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  • So let's select it:

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  • That is the correct location (Osaka bay). The same result would have been obtained with the search query: Sakai+Osaka+Japan.