Hi, I was trying to use Nominatim (Mapquest's server) to geocode the event locations for last weekend's Doors Open Toronto(XML feed: http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/culture/doorsopen.nsf/DOT_open_data.xml) using Geopy's OpenMapQuest geocoder. The addresses are clearly human-entered; here are some examples:
* 255 Spadina Rd * 1 King St W Floor : Lobby, 2nd, 12th * 350 King St W Floor : 4 * 95 Front Street East St E Even after adding ", Toronto, Ontario, Canada" to the query, I'd still get unreliable results. Some of them returned no results. Some returned obviously wrong results (such as just under 1/5 of the addresses were returned as "King's College Circle", even simple ones like '1451 Avenue Rd'). Toronto's got some pretty good address data in OSM. Am I naïve expecting Nominatim to be able to find locations for hand-keyed addresses? How can I improve the addressing so that Nominatim finds things better? thanks, Stewart
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