[Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 17:29:07 UTC 2014


CDPs were (incorrectly, probably) imported several years ago, leading to
your problem.

I don't know for sure, but Nominatim probably only pays attention to
geographic containment when it comes to hierarchy information like the
city. It probably should also index the addr:city tag too.
On Jun 11, 2014 6:12 PM, "Clifford Snow" <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

> I can not search for an address in part of unincorporated King County, WA
> when using the postal city.
>
> Fails - 7732 234th Place Northeast, Redmond, WA
>
> The search works when omitting the postal city. The search returns the
> CDP, Union Hill-Novelty Hill at the correct location.
>
> Passes - 7732 234th Place Northeast, WA
>
> The building is tagged as follows:
> addr:city=Redmond
> addr:housenumber=7732
> addr:street=234th Place Northeast
> addr:postcode=98053
> name=7732
>
> Is this a problem with nominatim or the CDP boundary?
>
> Clifford
>
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