confusion with YQL Result

Hi,

today I have my first steps with geoPlanet / YQL and I'm surprise about the performance!

So, I try to find a view cities in Germany with geoPlanet and YQL. Usually the result was as expected.

But when I try 'Holzhau', I get a empty result. (select * from geo.places where text = 'Holzhau')

When I try 'Holzha', I get 8 entries, and the first is Holzhau with woeid = 661885. I search it in geoPlanet (http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.woeid(661885);count=0?appid=app-id) ... one result - as expected ????

Why my first query is empty?

Thanks for Help

Dirk

This appears to be a location probability error. GeoPlanet does not return places that have a very low location probability, which is the case for Holzhau. The probability that Holzhau refers to a place should be much higher, allowing it to be returned. We will investigate and correct this. As a workaround you can add more information to your query, such as the state or country name or code. The following query will return the desired results in YQL: select * from geo.places where text = 'Holzhau DE'.

Eddie Babcock
Yahoo! Geo Technology