[Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

[Serge Wroclawski]

Clifford,

I do not like your statement in favor of deleting Bethesda from OSM.

- Serge
 On Jun 11, 2014 4:21 PM, "Clifford Snow" <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> wrote:
>
>> however folks may feel about CDPs, they aren't administrative government
>> entities and the current tagging of them with an admin_level is clearly
>> wrong (which Paul Norman pointed out to me a little while ago and he's
>> absolutely right). if we can't get them out of the database then we should
>> at least make an effort to come up with better tagging.
>>
>
> After reading the message thread, I agree that CDP's do not belong in OSM.
> I do think they describe some small rural areas but they are not
> administrative boundaries in the in the state, county, city, neighborhood
> sense.
>
> I think that Ian is correct that Nominatim is failing to find the address
> because of the CDP boundary. But does that make Nominatim wrong or the
> admin boundary? I can fix the admin boundary for this area, but that leaves
> hundreds of others untouched. Anyone want to help me understand how to
> remove the CDP for Union Hill-Novelty Hill CDP so I can test out if this
> fixes the address search?
>
> Serge, I like having administrative boundaries in OSM. For one it makes
> overpass area queries slick. I would prefer that boundaries be in a
> separate layer. Just recently I've been adding park and rides in NW
> Washington State. A number of the parking lots were connected to completely
> unrelated objects. The parking lots had grown since they were originally
> mapped. It made changing them a pain. That alone doesn't justify layers,
> but instead it makes OSM somewhat easier to maintain. How layers get
> implemented might involve separate tables or even databases, just so long
> as the contributor has the sense that if the admin boundary needs fixing,
> it is done from a separate layer.
>
> Clifford
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