[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Shaun McDonald]

On 1 Jan 2011, at 17:07, Richard Welty wrote:

> On 12/30/10 5:09 PM, john at jfeldredge.com wrote:
>> My guess (without having run a query) is that the Biitig Road entries in the database may not have any values tagged for town name and county name, and that Nominatim is using the values from the nearest noses that have those tags filled in.
>> 
> [coming back to this now that i've returned to Sunny Upstate NY:]
> 
> so should we be
> 
> 1) adding explicit info to ways about town/county

No, that causes huge amounts of duplicate info that is difficult to update.

> 
> or
> 
> 2) fixing county & town boundary relations

This is much better. Once the boundary has been fixed, then the point that may be there for the place should be removed too.

Shaun