[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Tue May 25 04:05:46 UTC 2021


On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 12:06, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au <
talk-au at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

>
> From what I can see Nominatim pulls any parent place=* or
> boundary=administrative area. Which is fine, even though sometimes these
> boundaries or places don't form part of the postal address, it's harmless
> for data consumers to display these.
>
> Nominatim can and does correctly deal with addresses which have omitted
> these tags. I tried OSMAnd and it does seem to pickup the suburb from a
> parent boundary, and it seems to ignore postcode regardless of it being on
> a parent boundary, or addr:postcode next to the number/street.
>

On this, I'm not sure if this may be an OSMAND problem, or an issue with
the way the info has been loaded in OSM, but here's something that I
noticed a few weeks ago, that may apply here?

Had to go visit a bloke for the first time, & his address is Watson Road,
Armstrong Creek:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Watson%20Road%2C%20Armstrong%20Creek#map=17/-27.23885/152.81791

As you can see, Nominatim shows "Watson Road, Armstrong Creek, Kobble
Creek, Moreton Bay Regional Council", but when you look at Watson Road, all
it says is highway=tertiary + name=Watson Road, with no suburb / city,
State or postcode listed.

In this area, Watson Road is the boundary between Armstrong Creek & Kobble
Creek "localities"

AC: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11675264#map=13/-27.2282/152.7932

KC: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11675296#map=13/-27.2679/152.8018

KC has also been created as a "village"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/310513460, although there is no village
as such, it's just an area name.

When I search via OSMAND though, it will find Watson Road, Kobble Creek,
but won't find Watson Road, Armstrong Creek? It will also find Kobble as a
suburb, & Kobbe Creek as a village, but won't find Armstrong Creek?

So, is this a peculiarity of the way the PSMA ADmn Boundaries have been
created, or something in OSMAND?

Thanks

Graeme
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