[talk-au] OSM Search results return strange stuff for Victoria.

[Michael Collinson]

Ewen,

I can't give you a definitive answer but I have noticed that the 
Nominatim search engine will give you a "close to" town, etc rather than 
a for sure field. 3192 is for Cheltenham directly south-east and I have 
for sure mapped a lot of address tags there with post code. I would 
hazard the guess that it is extrapolating from those. Adding a few 
(more?) points for Highett would not hurt. I mostly use till receipts.

Mike

On 2021-01-19 11:51, Ewen Hill wrote:
> This is a weird one...
> Do a search for 3 Remington Drive, Highett e.g...
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=3%20Remington%20Drive%2C%20Highett#map=19/-37.95363/145.04802&layers=N 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=3%20Remington%20Drive%2C%20Highett#map=19/-37.95363/145.04802&layers=N>
>
> It returns the correct street but the incorrect postcode.of 3192 ..
>
> Does anyone know how 3192 is injected into the returned address please?
>
> Ewen
>
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