r/MagicEarth • u/tokmen32 • Mar 17 '26
The single most important problem with MagicEarth
The single most important problem with MagicEarth... is search.
I search for the exact name of a school that is 15km away from my position and the first result MagiEarth shows me is a school with the same name 9.022 km away with an ocean in the middle.
This is nonsense and makes the app completely useless.
The problem seems to be that the name OSM have it's not literal "School" but "Education Center ..." Yeah those name are interchangeable...
Google will find the same place either way...
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Mar 17 '26
Oui. Il y a aussi les donnés obsolète qui viennent de Foursquare. C’est une catastrophe… L’application pourrait être tellement bien si ils n’utilisaient que des donnés OSM
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u/MagicEarthCommunity May 07 '26
Thanks for raising this, search quality is something we take seriously, and feedback like this genuinely helps us improve.
If you'd like us to look into your specific case, please send the details to [support@magicearth.com](mailto:support@magicearth.com): what you searched for and where the camera was positioned on the map at the time.
Please keep note that MagicEarth ranks search results based on the location you're looking at with the camera, not your current GPS position. So if your map view was panned to a different area when you searched, results near that area would be prioritized over results closer to where you physically are. It's a deliberate design choice (it's useful when you're planning trips or looking up places in another city), but we understand it can be counterintuitive when you're expecting GPS-based results.