[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

Andrew Davidson theswavu at gmail.com
Thu May 20 10:15:35 UTC 2021


On 19/5/21 7:11 pm, cleary wrote:
> 
> I think I recall discussion some months ago about incorrect suburbs being assigned addresses in Nominatim when relying on suburb boundaries. I think I recall that most errors occurred near the boundaries rather than the centre of areas, and more often when the suburb has an irregular shape (not many suburb areas are even close to rectangular in shape). Therefore I would support inclusion of the suburb/town/hamlet in  addresses to ensure accuracy.

Can you remember any examples of this? I have found that once you remove 
all of the redundant information Nominatim it works quite well. Now that 
they also update postal code boundaries it can also figure out those as 
well. So we have both sides of Hindmarsh Dr:

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=546709043

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=667114126

which are correctly identified as being in different suburbs and post codes.



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