Searchbox Short-Commands

When searching for challenges, the search box supports short-commands that can be used to execute alternative searches or alter search behavior. For example, the map can be instantly relocated to a bounding box or centerpoint (perhaps copied and pasted from another source) – or to a named geographic region – rather than having to manually pan and zoom to the target area.

List of Supported Commands:

m/ Move the map to either a WSEN bounding box or a lon,lat centerpoint

n/ Perform nominatim search of geographic name and move map to resulting bounds

p/ Search by project name

Details and Examples

m/ Move the map to either a bounding box (west, south, east, north) or a centerpoint (lon, lat)

Note: if you wish to also filter challenge results geographically, be sure to change your Location filter to “Intersecting Map Bounds” or “Within Map Bounds” as desired

Examples:

Move map to WSEN bounding box

m/-10.9313964,34.2526761,-0.1977539,40.9467136

Move map to lon,lat centerpoint

m/2.17,41.34

n/ Perform nominatim search of geographic name and move map to resulting bounds

Note: if you wish to also filter challenge results geographically, be sure to change your Location filter to “Intersecting Map Bounds” or “Within Map Bounds” as desired

Examples:

Move map to California

n/california

Move map to Moscow

n/moscow

p/ performs a case-insensitive search by project name, presenting challenges that are in a project matching (or partially matching) the searched name

Examples:

Show challenges in the mvexel project

p/mvexel

Show challenges in projects with “TIGER” in their name

p/tiger