<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Dave F. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davefox@madasafish.com" target="_blank">davefox@madasafish.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 14/12/2015 08:25, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:<br>
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Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks<br>
wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan. That's what<br>
throwing off Nominatim. Having a wikipedia page boosts the importance<br>
of an object.<br>
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Have you considered that the program is over weighting the importance of a wiki page?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In most situations, having a Wikipedia page is a roughly good indicator that a map object is more important. A residential house will almost always lack its own Wikipedia article, while a museum would probably have one.<br><br></div><div>And as Sarah mentioned, Nominatim also does some sort of weighting of Wikipedia articles also. So an OSM object will not necessarily become overly important just because there's a wikipedia=* tag.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Do end users want to find a coffee shop local to them or one thousands of kilometres away just because it has an extra tag attached?<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not just an extra tag, but *wrong* tag. In this particular case, I think the best fix is to correct the wrong tagging, and not to tweak the Nominatim algorithm.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Eugene<br></div></div><br></div></div>