[Talk-us] Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA has wrong zip code

[Andre Robatino]

Nominatum's top result for "Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA" still has
02446 (as it did immediately after I read your reply), but the other
results still have 02118. Shouldn't it have been copied to all the
mirrors by now?

BTW, I was wondering if it would make sense to use a list of specific
addresses as a sanity check on edits. Someone could register address(es)
they are familiar with, such as their own, and they would be notified
automatically if any of the associated data (such as county or zip code)
changed. If the change is wrong, they could log in and flag the error,
and the mistake could be traced back to the offending edit. If this
existed, I could have used it both for the zip code error, and for the
wrong county error that I reported in July, in
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2017-July/017529.html .

On 11/19/2017 02:57 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Nominatim should return the correct results now. 
>
> Problem that Max Erickson discovered was an incomplete edit in Boston
> that caused the problem. By adding a tag to the Boston node to
> describe the feature, resulted in Nominatim returning the correct results.
>
> Clifford
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Clifford Snow
> <clifford at snowandsnow.us <mailto:clifford at snowandsnow.us>> wrote:
>
>     I just asked about nominatim on the IRC
>
>     On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Max Erickson
>     <maxerickson at gmail.com <mailto:maxerickson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Nominatim calculates 02118:
>
>         http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=498867
>         <http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=498867>
>
>         Most of the data seems to have the correct addr:postcode:
>
>         http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/t5e
>
>         (The query includes postal_code but there aren't any in the data)
>
>         So what is Nominatim looking at to come up with the calculated
>         value?
>         I think the next thing to check would be boundaries enclosing
>         Brookline, not sure if that is how nominatim works though.
>

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