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@schnurrito @infeeeee Nominatim recognises some "special phrases" with words like "near" and "in". This allows just a little bit of "natural language" searching for POIs.
There is some info on the OSM wiki at this link. Within that, the "current language" pages tell you which phrases are recognised per language. You can see that the English language page has several mappings related to public bookcases.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special/_Phrases
Whaaat, I didn’t know that. You made my day.
Unfortunately, the French version isn’t so well‑rounded and doesn’t have bookcases.
Edit: @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de and @infeeeee@lemmy.zip, you made my day too. You all are awesome and I’m leaving for work in an excellent mood.