[Talk-us] Make Nominatim results smarter - The search for New York City Metropolitan Area does not return any results

[Greg Troxel]

"Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonewolf at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 5:09 AM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>> Speaking from "reasonable knowledge" of the topic, "Metropolitan New York
>> City" is, in the context of what you are looking for, an admin_level=5,
>> just about the only one of these in the USA.
>
> That admin_level=5 boundary is New York City proper.  The NYC metro area is
> a place much larger.

Yes, and "NYC Metropolitan Area" is a vague concept.   Different people
would draw the line differently.  Is Poughkeepsie in or out?  Newark?
Trenton? Philadelphia?  Stamford, CT?   I suspect city people draw it
tighter and people from upstate or further draw it bigger.

I'm not following the idea that nominatim should return something  that
not only we don't have encoded, but that we can't reasonably encode.