Geocoding for "somers new york" returns the admin boundary but not the town

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(1) apologies if this isn’t the right place to discuss the geocoding endpoint
(2) additional apologies if this is more of a bug report and should have been reported in github issues. I wasn’t sure which repo to file it under.

I was searching for the city of Somers, New York and the /geocode endpoint didn’t return the place=town of Somers, New York in the top 5 results, but returned the less accurately named “Town of Somers” administrative boundary instead. The town does exist here: Node: ‪Somers‬ (‪158874953‬) | OpenStreetMap so I’m surprised that it didn’t even show up.

https://graphhopper.com/api/1/geocode?q=somers%20new%20york&locale=en&key=*****

Is there something missing from that town node that is making it not show up in the results?

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Thanks for the report. It seem that some precision is missing in our default geocoding engine. Does it work when using provider=nominatim?

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