[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Emilie Laffray]

I agree. Don't forget it is the holiday and people take more time to reply.
What would be nice from Nominatim point of view is the creation of a page
where you would enter your test cases and what you expect. That would allow
the developer of nominatim to include those in his test suite.
It would make sense as not everyone understands the subtlety of a different
adressing system.
Such a page would be perfect for people to add knowledge.about their
country. Geocoding is not something trivial.

Emilie Laffray
On 2 Jan 2011 00:38, "Tom Hughes" <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 01/01/11 23:06, Richard Welty wrote:
>
>> it's not really leading anywhere, in part due to the fact that
>> noone from Nominatim has spoken up. i did just review the
>> Nominatim stuff i found in the wiki. they want postal code
>> polygons in the database; in the US this is the extremely iffy
>> zip code boundary stuff that probably shouldn't go in. i think
>> there are some architectural issues to be resolved, but this is
>> a pretty awful forum for that sort of thing especially given
>> the absence of the Nominatim folks themselves from the
>> discussion.
>
> Why don't you stop panicing, take a chill pill, and wait a few days for
> Brian to be able to comment about Nominatim. Then at least anything you
> decide to do might be based on actual information instead of random
> uninformed guesswork.
>
> Tom
>
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