[OSM-talk] Nominatim updates

Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk
Fri Jan 28 15:11:59 GMT 2011


On 28 January 2011 14:47, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> For me, reverse lookups are completely wrong right now. (I haven't
> tried forward lookups). And the status indication on
> nominatim.openstreetmap.org is blank. So I figure he's doing a DB
> rebuild or something.
> http://osm.org/?lat=-25.797306&lon=28.289618&zoom=18

Thanks for reporting this - this should also now be fixed.

It was finding the nearest road with houses on rather than just the
nearest road - a bit of an edge case this one because the road you
wanted doesn't have houses but all the ones nearby do.

--
 Brian



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