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We’ve Improved Your Placename Searches

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Summary

MapTiler cleaned its placename dataset: removed placeholder entries, deduplicated internal repeats, merged administrative areas, and unified bilingual names, aiming to show only inhabited places and a single result per location in search UI.

  • Three extra deduplication steps were added: (1) purge placeholder/bookkeeping records, (2) merge a location with its administrative area for place‑type queries, (3) collapse bilingual variants into one searchable entry.
  • The cleanup targets mobile UI constraints: fewer, non‑duplicate results reduce scrolling and improve hit‑rate for the correct place.
  • The effort spans multiple source datasets (government, legacy) and handles cases like multiple geometry types (point vs polygon) and multilingual name variants.

On constrained screens a search that returns many duplicate or irrelevant entries forces users to scroll and can hide the correct location, hurting UX and potentially leading to mis‑selection in navigation or data entry workflows.

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