[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Richard Welty]

On 1/1/11 12:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
> 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.
>
that's a change to Nominatim. what i'm trying to get at here are what
things might need to be done in the core database, and what things
might be needed changes to Nominatim. i'd really hope to hear from
folks working on Nominatim on what they think on these issues as
well.

richard