[Geocoding] Why Places over using OSM objects

[MAYANK SINGAL]

Why nominatim and similar systems creates a Place object over directly
working on OSM objects? I am assuming Place is just a view model with no
data being stored by itself. Is there a good document to read more about
it?
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