[OSM-talk] address parsing by nominatim

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:15:46 +0100
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/1/9 ヴィカス　ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) <mevikas at gmail.com>:
> > I surveying from Northern India. I studied how addresses are to be
> > tagged in order so nominatim can locate it. That went great. The
> > problem is the every house has to be tied to a street (addr:street).
> > 1) We don't have names for living streets
> 
> 
> are you sure you are talking about living streets or do you mean
> residential streets?
> 
> 
> > 2) We so many times have blocks or sectors (tagged as locality or
> > hamlet)
> 
> 
> locality should be used for uninhabited places
> 
> 
> sorry, that I cannot help you with your original problem.
> 
> cheers,
> Martin
> 

Martin's reply highlights a problem with the eurocentric version of a
place hierarchy in OSM - it doesn't fit India.