[OSM-talk] Nominatim QA

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Jmapb wrote:
>  - The help popup ("?" in the top right corner) says to report false
> positives via issues on github, but I don't see any issue tab in linked
> repository https://github.com/AntoJvlt/Nominatim-Data-Analyser/ ...
> should this point to
> https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim-Data-Analyser/ ?

Yes, there is already an issue for it and Antonin will fix it as soon as
he finds some time.

>  - In the "addr:street wrong name" layer, I see some instances where
> Nominatim has associated an address with the wrong highway. For example,
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/241846599 is linked with the cycleway
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/334258570 instead of the tertiary
> highway https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/775108146 . Do we need to use
> type=street relations to force the correct street assignment in these cases?

This was due to a misjudgment on my side that by-word matching of
street names would do, see https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/2534
This has been fixed in the meantime but will only be fully reflected in
the database after the next reimport.

Sarah