resolve_area compared the spoken name with the unit's name literally, so
"State of Texas" (admin1) and "USA" or "UK" (country) were refused with
AREA_IDENTITY_MISMATCH although the bundled matcher found exactly those
units. Both identity checks, the bundled one and the outline ladder's, now
also accept the prefix forms and same-unit country aliases the matcher
reads, at the level they imply, so the level check still applies.
"Great Britain", "Britain", "America" and "Korea" still need their own
names, and the natural-region check stays literal.
From review:
- An answer the view picked ("Springfield" over Illinois) is reused or
shared only within the same ~2° view cell, so asking again elsewhere no
longer gets the first state's area.
- Admin names compare with accents folded on Latin letters only: "Quebec"
matches "Québec" and "Cordoba" asks between Argentina and Spain, while a
Thai or Devanagari mark still tells names apart.
- A Natural Earth name used by several features is one place with every
part when they touch (the Great Rift Valley, the Lau Group across 180°)
and a question when they are far apart (Flores); natural places can now
be candidates.
- The AREAS rule and the area tool descriptions are tighter, leaving a
~270-character margin under the 55,500 prompt ceiling, and resolve_area
no longer names osm_query when that tool is not offered.
A radius the user gives always draws a buffer, but the enclosing outline
was still looked up first (up to 6 s and a guarded Nominatim request) and
then thrown away. It is no longer requested. The slow-outline test now
checks the default 250 m fallback it was meant to cover.
Every name ending in "Zone" was kept without a level and refused as a retired
administrative identity. That is right for Nepal, which replaced its zones in
2015, but zones are current units elsewhere: Ethiopia's "Gamo Zone" was
refused. The selector now keeps the verified level unless display_name places
the zone in Nepal or names no country, and the client no longer reads "Zone"
as a retired level when the source verified one.
- turn named places and mapped landmarks into reusable bounded areas
- count loaded records inside resolved, drawn and annotated geometry
- find recent imagery for an area, the view or the pointer snapshot
- keep osm place search behind an operator-configured overpass endpoint
- preserve cancellation, ownership and follow-up memory across every action
- cover geometry, provider lifecycle, cache isolation and voice routing
Sameh Khamis