[Geocoding] City information missing/wrong

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 07/30/2013 02:22 PM, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
> It is a peculiarity of German city counties ("kreisfreie Städte") that
> they are only mapped once with their lowest administrative level in OSM,
> which is county (or even state for the three city states).
> There is no way for Nominatim to know that those counties also
> represent a city.

It has once been attempted to create an additional admin_level 8 
relation for a city like this - Bremen:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14997436

Which was promptly reverted:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16623822

Perhaps it is time for a semicolon-separated list of admin levels ;)

Bye
Frederik

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