[Geocoding] [OpenStreetMap] #4555: Long list of roads/buildings/features appearing under the "parentage" of a suburb rather than the town

OpenStreetMap trac at noreply.openstreetmap.org
Fri Sep 7 10:27:35 BST 2012


#4555: Long list of roads/buildings/features appearing under the "parentage" of a
suburb rather than the town
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 Reporter:  djfisher81@…          |       Owner:  geocoding@…                
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new                        
 Priority:  minor                 |   Milestone:                             
Component:  nominatim             |     Version:                             
 Keywords:                        |  
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 Pretty much the entirety of central Croydon (Greater London, UK) is listed
 as being within "Thornton Heath" and also "SE25".  Croydon is a large
 town; Thornton Heath is a suburb lying to the north, and SE25 is the
 postal code of South Norwood, a different suburb lying to the north-east.
 Looking at the Nominatim results for Thornton Heath
 (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=4358752) and
 Croydon (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=113996),
 the only possible problem I can see is that Croydon is listed as "Rank:
 Village/Hamlet" but I'm not sure what this means in practice, especially
 as it also has "Admin Level: 15" which is (I think?) correct...

 As a specific instance, Surrey Street
 (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=37838695) is a
 street in central Croydon which has the misattribution described above.

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