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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL-BE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><</span>I used the place= node as admin_centre. That's also the one that I moved. Should there be a difference between the two ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><</span>As for the two relations: I'm still fighting nominatim. I want all the street(segments) within the Muizen area to return 2812 as post code. In Germany they use the dedicated boundary=postal_code. This is also what <span style='color:#1F497D'><</span>was recommended by someone on a similar question on <a href="http://help.openstreetmap.org">help.openstreetmap.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><</span>So I tried that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That’s what I’m trying to do in Ghent, and it doesn’t work. I’ve defined the “deelgemeenten” with their postal code (actually as a boundary=administrative), but there seem to be some postal codes “hardcoded” in Nominatim, which seem to have preference over the postal code bounbdaries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Examples :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Waterkluiskaai in Sint-Amandsberg still has postal code 9050, although in reality it has 9040 :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=waterkluiskaai#map=17/51.04681/3.75473">http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=waterkluiskaai#map=17/51.04681/3.75473</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sint-Amandsberg has 9040, which is correct :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=sint-amandsberg#map=17/51.04681/3.75473">http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=sint-amandsberg#map=17/51.04681/3.75473</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>9040 is NOT hardcoded in Nominatim :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=9040#map=17/51.04681/3.75473">http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=9040#map=17/51.04681/3.75473</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>9050 is :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=9050#map=17/51.04681/3.75473">http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=9050#map=17/51.04681/3.75473</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So everything near the 9050 “node” will get the postal code 9050, regardless of boundaries :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=tarbotstraat#map=17/51.04557/3.74683">http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=tarbotstraat#map=17/51.04557/3.74683</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>while Tarbotstraat is within the 9000 boundary, but close to the “9050 virtual node”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The only solution is to add the postal_code on street level…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>