When specifying the venue param for /v1/search/structured (ie. when searching for a POI), additional information, such as the postcode and street fields are not considered for scoring.
This results in POI results being returned in insertion order rather than better matches being shown first.
Examples:
The second result matches the postalcode 6011, yet is displayed second:
Adding the address information of the second result returns only address layer results:
Manually specifying layers=venue shows the same results as the original query (incorrectly ordered):
When specifying the
venueparam for/v1/search/structured(ie. when searching for a POI), additional information, such as thepostcodeandstreetfields are not considered for scoring.query/layout/StructuredFallbackQuery.js
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This results in POI results being returned in insertion order rather than better matches being shown first.
Examples:
The second result matches the postalcode 6011, yet is displayed second:
Adding the address information of the second result returns only
addresslayer results:Manually specifying
layers=venueshows the same results as the original query (incorrectly ordered):