I'm going to assume you are talking about nominatim - if not sorry. > As far as I know the reverse geocoding looks for the nearest place in the > database, so it also gives result for "unmapped" territories. For example if > I use an extract of a city, the reverse geocoding will produce an address > inside that city for coordinates anywhere in the world.
Well, not entirely. Beyond 1 degree of lat/lon from the imported area it will simply return an error. > How could I check the validity of the result? > Is it possible to get the coordinates of the result (or even the > geographical distance from the input coordinates)? The output could certainly be extended to include this fairly easily. This information is calculated internally but not exposed. > Can the country be determined for a position outside the "mapped" > territories? (Maybe somebody has a method for using the data of the > import_worldboundaries.sql script) That is a valid point. This used to be done and has been lost recently. -- Brian _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
