[OSM-talk-be] POI Address problem

[Marc Gemis]

the help thread is here:
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/28075/how-to-correctly-map-a-pois-address

seems that Nominatim was not updated after the associatedStreet-relation
update


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm reading
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Development_overview again,
> especially the section on "Building indexing"
>
> Buildings, houses and other lower than street level features (i.e., bus
> stops, phone boxes, etc.) are indexed by relating them to their most
> appropriate nearby street.
> The street is calculated as:
> 1. The street member of an associatedStreet relation
> 2. If the node is part of a way:
> 2.1 If this way is street level, than that street
> 2.2 The street member of an associatedStreet relation that this way is in
> 2.3 A street way with 50/100 meters and parallel with the way we are in
> 3. A nearby street with the name given in addr:street of the feature we
> are in or the feature we are part of
> 4. The nearest street (up to 3 miles)
> 5. Not linked
>
>
> It seems that it takes one of the streets from the associatedStreet
> relation to work with. The segment should be long enough (longer than
> 50-100 m ?). It then works with this street. It simply ignores the tags on
> the associatedStreet. This would make the relation useless to solve any
> issue regarding name and postcode for streets that are the border between 2
> villages.
>
>
> The 2 names in the standard tag are "required", otherwise many QA-tools
> will complain name:left/right is not recognized, or are they ? (yeah I know
> do not tag for ... :-) )
> You can't use a semi-colon in the name (to indicate multiple names)
> otherwise another bunch of QA-tools complain that there are 2 names on a
> "highway".
>
> BTW, the postcode is also wrong in my example. It should be 2840.
>
> It has time, Glenn, it's wrong for several weeks now, so a day more or
> less does not matter.
>
> m
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Ben Abelshausen <
> ben.abelshausen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be>wrote:
>>
>>> If it can wait I'll check this evening with full attention.
>>>
>>
>> That's up to marc. But I guess he would like to see his work be made into
>> something useful. :-)
>>
>>
>> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ben Abelshausen
>>
>>
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