Better and more reliable way to display Finto YSO Places' geolocations, current solution may be misleading or even incorrect

[JJManner]

All users could benefit from the better and more reliable way to Finto YSO Places' - YSO-URI - geolocations.

Currently Finto YSO Places' geolocations are displayed using only a single coordinate point, no matter if the actual location is an area like a town, a county or even a province. In the worst case scenario the user may think that the given point is the real location and go there, to the point which is the mathematical center of a province, located hundreds of kilometres away from the real location.

Finto YSO Places uses OpenStreetMap to display these geolocations.

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html - can display areas very reliably as areas if it uses Finto YSO Places English breadcrumb as a search string, displaying all areas as they are (towns, parts of the cities, rivers, lakes, counties, provinces). Only the part "Nordic countries >" must be stripped away from the beginning. Finnish breadcrumb string is not able to display e.g. parts of the cities like "Kruununhaka" and fails also in some other type of locations.

Using Nominatim would clarify instantly what kind of information is really displayed and minimise the risks of someone getting serious financial loss going to a wrong place, not understanding that the current system is giving wrong and misleading information.

When it comes to some historical, not commonly known or nowadays otherwise non-existing places, then if Nominatim gives no results, the actual coordinate point could be displayed instead. This would be the only check needed in the process.

This new solution would raise the level of the current geolocation display in Finto YSO Places significantly and help all organisations and common users using YSO-URI locations greatly.

[osma]

Transferred to the Skosmos-widget-map repository where this more properly belongs.