title: OSMNX not able to import graphs or GDF from a place
body: <p>I am trying to import the graphs and GDFs of few locations for my analysis:</p>
  <pre><code>import osmnx as ox
  import geopandas as gpd
  import networkx as nx
  print(ox.__version__)
  ox.config(use_cache=True, log_console=True)
  Kinshasa = [ &quot;Kisenso, Mont Amba, 31, Democratic Republic of the Congo&quot;,
  &quot;N'djili, Tshangu, Democratic Republic of the Congo&quot;,
  &quot;Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo&quot;]
  cf = '[&quot;highway&quot;~&quot;residential|tertiary&quot;]' 
  
  GDF_Kinshasa = ox.geocode_to_gdf(Kinshasa)
  G_Kinshasa = ox.graph.graph_from_place(Kinshasa, simplify=True, network_type='drive')
  </code></pre>
  <p>All packages were imported just fine. However, after running the code, I got the following error:</p>
  <pre><code>G_Kinshasa = ox.graph.graph_from_place(Kinshasa, simplify=True, network_type='drive')
  2021-01-04 23:02:02 Retrieved response from cache file &quot;cache/90bf90f753deea13c94e5d85a594adef.json&quot;
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  
  File &quot;&lt;ipython-input-20-ed05e2c7d4b0&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  G_Kinshasa = ox.graph.graph_from_place(Kinshasa, simplify=True, network_type='drive')
  
  File &quot;/Users/microman/opt/anaconda3/envs/Kinshasa/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/graph.py&quot;, line 334, in graph_from_place
  gdf_place = geocoder.geocode_to_gdf(query, buffer_dist=buffer_dist)
  
  File &quot;/Users/microman/opt/anaconda3/envs/Kinshasa/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/geocoder.py&quot;, line 97, in geocode_to_gdf
  gdf = gdf.append(_geocode_query_to_gdf(q, wr))
  
  File &quot;/Users/microman/opt/anaconda3/envs/Kinshasa/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osmnx/geocoder.py&quot;, line 142, in _geocode_query_to_gdf
  raise ValueError(f'OSM returned no results for query &quot;{query}&quot;')
  
  ValueError: OSM returned no results for query &quot;Kisenso, Mont Amba, 31, Democratic Republic of the Congo&quot;
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am using OSMNX version 0.16.2 and MAC OS with python 3.7. The code was running fine last time I tried under OSMNX version 0.15.1. I think the issue is with Open Street Maps API but cannot confirm it.</p>
  <p>Would be grateful if anyone can suggest what is going on.</p>