[OSM-talk] address parsing by nominatim

Stephen Hope slhope at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 06:23:15 GMT 2011


2011/1/10 ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) <mevikas at gmail.com>:
> I used hamlet for my block as pop limit of <1000 is given = satisfied

The problem here is that population is only part of the definition of
a hamlet.  Less than 1000 people is correct, but it also has an
implied "and is surrounded by open land/farms etc".  You can't have a
whole bunch of adjacent hamlets sharing borders, they are not hamlets.

Stephen



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