[OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Sat May 7 08:59:54 BST 2011


Lennard wrote:
 > On 6-5-2011 20:44, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote:
 >
 >> I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but  as i can see
 >> (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to
 >> help nomatim to find location.
 >
 > The entire Netherlands is covered by admin relations. Of course,
 > occasionally, these get broken. Also, not every admin_level=10 is there
 > yet. Up to z8 is complete, barring broken data.
 >
 > The municipality is here:
 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/188858
 >
 > However, we don't have an admin_level=10 relation for the town called
 > Helden, on account of the municipality not giving us their boundaries
 > yet. There's another mapper tracing these from official documents (less
 > accurate than receiving the original geo data, but alas), but he doesn't
 > seem to have done this yet.

I have added admin_level=10 with data from 6pp and own knowledge. It's probably 
a bit crude compared with original sources but I think it is correct.

It still does not explain the zipcode though.

Regards,
Maarten



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