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[this got no response on talk-us, so i'm trying talk]<br>
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i'm trying to understand some of what's going on with Nominatim and<br>
US places.<br>
<br>
specifically, in trying to look up a local road name here in NY, i'm
curious<br>
about why Nominatim does what it does, and whether there are changes<br>
that need to be made in the map data, or changes perhaps in how
Nominatim<br>
interprets the map data.<br>
<br>
the specific example i'm using here is Biittig Road in the Town of
Sand Lake,<br>
NY:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.61507&lon=-73.59512&zoom=15&layers=M">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.61507&lon=-73.59512&zoom=15&layers=M</a><br>
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postal addresses on Biittig will be in Averill Park, NY. this is how
a normal<br>
user would probably try to look it up. it fails.<br>
<br>
what works are either of these two strings: "Biittig Road, NY" and<br>
"Biittig Road, Sliters, NY"<br>
<br>
Sliters is a tiny unincorporated hamlet a mile or so south of
Biittig Road, and it<br>
is probably the nearest such from the gnis import. it's not really
correct for any<br>
postal addressed based lookups, and i think very few would ever try
to look it up<br>
that way. they'll try "Biittig Road, Averill Park, NY" get nothing
and decide the<br>
whole thing sucks. we should probably attempt to provide a slightly
better<br>
user experience.<br>
<br>
the displayed results from Nominatim are curious as well:<br>
<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;
line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Unclassified Road<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-73.6051635742188&minlat=42.612548828125&maxlon=-73.5850830078125&maxlat=42.6175994873047"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: none;">Biittig
Road, Sliters, Saratoga, 12018, ニューヨーク州, United States of
America</a></span></span><br>
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I'm not at all clear on why Saratoga is showing up at all. Saratoga
County is a bit<br>
north and west of here; Biittig Road is in Rensselaer County (note
that i did just<br>
fix some county border issues with Rensselaer County, it was
mislabled<br>
Franklin County when it was imported, and the admin_level was
missing<br>
from one segment. i need to go look at the eastern border with
Massachusetts,<br>
i think that's wrong for Rensselaer County as well. i did these
lookups before i<br>
made the corrections, and i don't know how rapidly changes like this
impact<br>
Nominatim.)<br>
<br>
can someone involved in the Nominatim comment on this, and what
needs to be<br>
done either on the map data side or the Nominatim side to get
results that<br>
are more consistent with what an ordinary user-off-the-street might
be expecting?<br>
<br>
richard<br>
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