[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Anthony]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> 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
>
> or
>
> 2) fixing county & town boundary relations

When someone searches for "Biittig Road, Averill Park, NY", just look
for a Biittig Road *near* Averill Park, NY, not necessarily one *in*
Averill Park, NY.