[OSM-talk] address parsing by nominatim

[Pierre-Alain Dorange]

Vikas Yadav <vikas at thevikas.com> wrote:

> locality is the way i could properly render blocks and sectors right now in
> OSM india. please suggest if there is a better/proper way achieving the same
> render result.
> 
> z12: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.408&lon=77.0776&zoom=12&layers=M
>  - you can spot sectors (govt sold residential area) as well as private
> societies (private sold resi are).
> 
> z14: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.4141&lon=77.0564&zoom=14&layers=M
> now, you can see blocks to sectors too like block A,B,C or Phase 1,2 or Part
> 1 or Part 2 which are within the same sector. (but there are no known naming
> rules so there are always exceptions)
> Only sometimes, street names are only connecting sectors. but never are
> there street names within a sector.

I've nor followed the whole discussion but perhaps can you test using
boundary relation. You can define area with name and nominatim use them.

relation
        type=boundary
        boundary=administrative
        admin_level= ?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level
it seems 6 for blocks

but the situation in India seems a bit tricky :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_India



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Pierre-Alain Dorange
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