<div dir="ltr">Well, I was the only one thinking that about your previous mail :)<div>But André is probably right: it is a strange idea to define just one language for a nation. I wouldn't be surprised if half the people on this planet live in countries with more than one official language. Official languages tend to follow admin boundaries, so I don't see the point of boundary=linguistic. But you might feed a tool like Nominatim with an official language tag at different admin_levels. Might also help with interpreting special naming styles, like in Brussels. So you could have something like official_language="see admin level 4" for Belgium, and official_language=fr;nl for Brussels. Mapped this way, it might help a tool understand that you can't know the language of a name in Belgium by just looking at the country outline, and that in Brussels you have to look out for bilingual names. </div><div><br><div>As we're talking Nominatim special cases: makes me think of Philippe's long irritation that all addresses in central Brussels being returned as in the Marollen. This is because there are only thee neighborhoods mapped in Brussels.</div><div><br></div><div>Proposed solution: the statistical sectors of Belgium are now open data. We could map the centroids of those as neighborhood nodes. Statistical sectors of course don't always reflect what we would call neighborhoods (especially in the countryside, or in industrial areas etc). But in city centers they do tend to reflect what might be used locally.</div><div>(I don't consider this a huge problem myself, so won't work on it myself)</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-09-29 6:47 GMT+02:00 André Pirard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.pirard.papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.pirard.papou@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi,<br>
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That is exactly what I explained several times before (Nominatim's
behavior, not that feature).<br>
I put it that what that feature does is: if name:ll=* is missing
produce an implicit one with the same value as name=*.<br>
This means (assuming that name=* always exists), that a browser
configured with ll as one of its primary languages will always
find a name in language ll in a region where that language is
primarily spoken and is Nominatim's such "default".<br>
Now, what you say about Flemish nl s also true for Walloon fr and
our eastern quiet and gentle friends' de.<br>
So that if Nominatim is defining a language default "by country"
as you say, they really missed something.<br>
They missed Belgium, they missed Switzerland, they missed Wales,
they missed the Spanish speaking South USA etc.<br>
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I have long thought of proposing a boundary=linguistic that would
be used, typically for the Belgian regions, in parallel with the
administrative ones and that would obviously be where Nominatim
should pick that "default" language.<br>
But I have also long abandoned the idea of feeding OSM with well
thought out suggestions because, instead of trying to understand
my goals and possibly suggesting alternatives, my fellow
contributors answer that this is not the way "we" do it, or other
denials, or that I'm out of topic or even that I'm accusing people
to "do bad job".<br>
<br>
Let it be, as the Beatles said.<br>
Cheers
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On 2016-09-29 05:20, Marc Gemis wrote:<br>
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<pre>Here's another fact about Nominatim that I learned after a private
conversation with Sarah.
Nominatim has the possibility to install a default language for a
country. This is not done for Belgium, but can be done for The
Netherlands. Right now, the list is not complete and The Netherlands
is missing.
What is the result ? In case you configure multiple languages in your
browser, e.g. NL & DE, you will see DE results in case there is a
DE-name and no explicit NL-name. This is the case for Zutphen.
What will be the impact for Belgium ? Suppose a Flemish town is mapped
as name=X and name:fr=Y . You install both NL and FR in your browser.
A search will now return Y.
This means we might have to map name:NL explicitly. I know some will
consider this as mapping for the tool. Nominatim has no way (I asked)
to do this on other levels than countries. So there is no possibility
to tell it the default language for Flanders or Wallonia.
Hope this explains why in some case you get unexpected results from
Nominatim search
regards
m
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