i think we probably need to specify this. do we want geocoding to reference postal addresses, e.g.
123 Example Street Anytown, IA, 12345 to resolve as a proper postal address both forwards and back, or do we want it to resolve within some recognized boundary for Anytown? these are different, sometimes very different. A friend of mine lives in the Town of Colonie, County of Albany here in New York, but he has a postal address of Schenectady (City in the County of Schenectady). there is no single solution to both of these problems. the current handling of this in Nominatum is so far as i know focused on admin boundaries, and will not handle the postal address case properly. so what do we mean by geocoding? what do we want it to do exactly? who is the customer and what are the use cases? richard _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
