[Talk-us-sfbay] Silicon Valley

Marc Tobias mtm at opencagedata.com
Sat Jan 27 13:42:08 UTC 2018


Hi,

A user of the Nominatim geocoder noted that there's no place
called 'Silicon Valley' in OpenStreetMap.

In old changesets I found it existed at some point
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/1950908 with center
point University Avenue, Palo Alto.

Arguably the center could also be the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1710414037
but I found it more surprising it doesn't exist at all.

San Francisco Bay Area, with alt_name=Bay Area exists as a
region
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2157162589

Can I go ahead and create a similar node for Silicon
Valley? Just want to make sure there weren't past
discussions or even edit wars I missed.

thx

marc tobias



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