[OSM-talk-be] Note tells OSM fails

Lionel Giard lionel.giard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 07:39:55 UTC 2018


The official french name is "Kraainem" too, while Crainhem is an alternate
spelling for french (but i had never seen it before). Maybe we should
change the tag and put it like that "name:fr=Kraainem" and "alt_name:fr=
Crainhem" ?

Le mar. 4 sept. 2018 à 20:43, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I replied with the same names as person used in the original note.
> Kraainem is named Kraainem in the name and name:nl fields.
>
> It is possible that Nominatim returns the name:fr field in case you
> have your browser configured to prefer French above Dutch.
>
> m.
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 7:21 PM Karel Adams <fa348739 at skynet.be> wrote:
> >
> > In the margin and without wishing to enter politics, allow me to insist
> > we should name the village by its primary and original name "Kraainem".
> >
> >
> > On 04/09/18 09:39, Marc Gemis wrote:
> > > Here is the answer I gave on the note:
> > >
> > > As you can see on the map, the boundary between Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
> > > and Crainhem runs slighty left of the Rue Longue.
> > >
> > > Since the current implementation of Nominatim (the software that looks
> > > up the addresses), always looks at the street and never at the POIs,
> > > there is no way to solve this with data.
> > >
> > > AFAIK, they are working on a solution for this, but there is no
> > > timeframe for a solution
> > >
> > > m.
> > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 9:38 AM Jakka <vdmfrankvdm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Who can answer and close this note.
> > >> Building is located in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre but access highway is in
> > >> Crainhem I think...
> > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1477650#map=19/50.84217/4.46717
> > >> https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=84536059
> > >>
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