Wrong result for אודם

[NeatNit]

What did you search for?

The search term is "אודם"

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html?q=%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9D
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9D

What result did you get?

United States: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/148838 / https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=148838&class=boundary

What result did you expect?

Village named Odem: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/821433015 / https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=821433015&class=place

Further details

This was asked by someone else in the OSM_Israel Telegram group.

I could find no link between the search term אודם and the result United States.

[mtmail]

The phrase אודם gets transliterated to WDM and apparently that's USA in Kabyle language on this node https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/424317935 Nominatim merges the node and relation. That's just an explanation why it happened, I'm not saying it makes sense.

[lonvia]

This is not the first mixup with country names. We urgently need lookup names for countries.

[lonvia]

On closer inspection, the 'WDM' entry for Kabyle language looks rather bogus. Neither the wikipedia page nor wikidata have anything that even closely resembles that abbreviation. I've removed it.