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<p>On 2016-07-07 08:15, Frederik Ramm wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Hi,<br /><br /> On 07/07/2016 08:04 AM, Tijmen Stam wrote:
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<br /> We usually resolve such issues by looking at the surrounding<br /> administrative area polygons. You will see that, for example, we have<br /> long since stopped tagging a village with<br /> "is_in=CountyA,StateB,CountryC" because the geocoder can easily<br /> determine this information from the admin boundaries. The same can be<br /> done for public transport stops.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Depends on the country... the UK does not have well-defined boundaries for settlements unless they happen to coincide with a parish council boundary. In very many ways the UK is far less organised and structured than most European countries. The results from Nominatim for an arbitrary location in the UK are usually just about recognisable, but in many cases differ widely from what a "local resident" would instinctively expect.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Or are you saying that the public transport company might use a<br /> different name for the administrative entity than can be deduced from<br /> the admin boundary?</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">This can easily be the case, as the transport company might use the colloquial name for a location. Admin boundaries can be funny sometimes, dividing a settlement into parts which the man in the street doesn't recognise.</div>
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