[Talk-ca] Why does a search for Edmonton show the city out in the country?

[Harald Kliems]

If you click on "View Details" you will get to this way:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28295454

I believe the problem is that the way is tagged as area=yes, despite not
being closed. And I guess in general it would make more sense to have the
city boundaries in a relation, not a way. I'm not totally sure about this,
though, so maybe someone more familiar with the boundaries can have a look
at it.

 Harald.


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Mark Bennett <mark.f.bennett at gmail.com>wrote:

> If I search for "Edmonton" on http://openstreetmap.org than select "City
> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada" I am taken to this feature which is way out in
> the country.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28295454
>
> Shouldn't this take me to a marker in the centre of the city? Or at least
> somewhere within the city boundry? I'm happy to fix this, but am not sure I
> understand what's wrong.
>
> Any advice? Thanks!
>
> -mark
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