The quick search shortcuts at the top of the map search a larger area than focussed, and displace the focussed area

Boomkop3

I have Kagi maps open to my home town, that I usually just zoom in at. Today I tried clicking the "restaurants" button up top, and it did find restaurants. But it also focussed on the next town over.

So I clicked the sort "distance", and it sorted by distance from the location it moved into rather than where I selected. I had to look my location back up afterwards.

A workaround is to first look up the location you want to search from in the search bar, then look for things nearby, But that loses you accuracy in your search to individual towns.

But currently, the issue increases as you click suggestions. Clicking cafe's then hotels led me halfway across the country. (tho to be fair, the country is small)

Perhaps these buttons could lock in the current location the same way looking it up would?

RoxyRoxyRoxy

CC @damian

Boomkop3

Hey Damian, your work on the maps app is going awesome!

I'd tell you in the Discord but I can't. I feel bad posting only issues and not having a "thank you" button

damian

@Boomkop3 I agree there's still some rough edges on the camera movement algorithm. cc @dylansc22

The problem with sometime showing result in different area is that quick buttons work based on zoom level but don't fully restrict to exact area but just provide hint to camera center for search.

How I think we can improve it:

1) At certain zoom level (like city / district) just default to in-area search only. Actually for the things we have in quick-filters currently we probably can switch to default to in-area search only.

I can see edge cases where searching for in-area in not great like looking for nearest hospital or gas station in less populated locations but it's applies only to general search and not here so I think this will be fine adjustment.

Can you confirm if you get good results when setting similar viewpoint and clinking "search in area" - this is exactly to what we could swap easily @Boomkop3

2) The idea when we are using general search to keep original camera center for distance calculation is probably also good-idea for an improvement.

Thanks for kind words and helpful issues @Boomkop3