<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="" class=""><br style="">Hrvoje</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">With OSM Nominatim to geolocate properly for streets, we need to have town boundaries including into OSM. I was looking at this today and it seems that those limits are not imported yet. If we could have such limits to import (license compatible with ODbL), it would greatly enhance the geolocation.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">If limits do not exist, Nominatim calculate a circle around a town place name and attribute the streets around to this town, This way it is less precise then with town boundary limits.<br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br style="" class=""></span><br style="" class=""></div> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <hr style="" class="" size="1"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> hbogner <hbogner@gmail.com><br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> hot@openstreetmap.org <br style="" class=""><b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Cc :</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org <br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mercredi 21 mai 2014 18h50<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <div style="" class=""><br style=""
class="">Just figured out why that certain request turns out nothing.<br style="" class="" clear="none">That town didn't exist on the map few days ago, only few main roads, <br style="" class="" clear="none">railway and town name.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">But can anyone suggest a way for them to better geolocate input data.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Regards,<br style="" class="" clear="none">Hrvoje<br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="" id="yqtfd21458"><br style="" class="" clear="none">On 05/22/2014 12:35 AM, hbogner wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">> I got this message from people at www.poplave.rs<br style="" class="" clear="none">> Can someone help with answers to these questions.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> <quote><br style="" class="" clear="none">> I am contacting you
concerning maps at www.Poplave.rs.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> We need to find a "simple" way to locate all inputted locations to exact<br style="" class="" clear="none">> geo locations. On many levels people are entering weird combination of<br style="" class="" clear="none">> town, street name and street number. Plus sometimes your system finds a<br style="" class="" clear="none">> street but it can not find it if its connected to the town. We would<br style="" class="" clear="none">> like to create full screen map with all locations in place (at least<br style="" class="" clear="none">> good amount).<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> What would be the best way to convert inputted locations into correct<br style="" class="" clear="none">> geo locations on the map.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">>
One example:<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> User submitted into location form: paracin deligradska<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> paracin = town<br style="" class="" clear="none">> deligradska = street<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> * sometime it is opposite street first then town<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Your system can find each of these separately, but together system is<br style="" class="" clear="none">> finding nothing even on your main map:<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> <a style="" class="" shape="rect" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=paracin%20deligradska#map=5/51.509/-0.088" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=paracin%20deligradska#map=5/51.509/-0.088</a><br
style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Most of the time this is the setup we have because people did not have<br style="" class="" clear="none">> time to search locations.<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Any help is appreciated."<br style="" class="" clear="none">> </quote><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> Regards,<br style="" class="" clear="none">> Hrvoje Bogner<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">_______________________________________________<br style="" class="" clear="none">HOT mailing list<br style="" class="" clear="none"><a style="" class="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org"
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