[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Brian Quinion]

> 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.

This sounds helpful and it sort of already exists
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/TestCases) although at
the moment it is more about test cases for search strings rather than
how the addresses should be presented or formatted.

On a related topic it would probably also makes sense to start trying
to put together a more formalised version of the pages on address
formats - both in terms to the different ways that people enter search
strings and the format which should be used for outputting addresses
for different types of featured.

The following are both good starts but are not very easy to convert
into rules for software:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder/Address_format
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocoding

--
 Brian