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I tried Inverness, but strangely it only found those in the new world, not the original in Scotland.

Seems to be struggling with some of the nations in the UK. I can get London (England) and Swansea (Wales) no problem, but Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow (Scotland) etc. don't work. Nor do Derry, Belfast etc. (Northern Irish cities).

The data is coming from https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=json, and it appears that it doesn't do any keyword searching - so if you type "edinburgh" it only finds regions which start with edinburgh. Typing "City of edinburgh" will find the correct council region.

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=city%20of%20edinburgh...

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