Ta for the info, another theory down the drain, I wonder if its to do with a place name. No I haven't touched Richmond road but I thought it had been labeled street on one segment. Merkley has been there for some time.
Thanks Cheerio John On 24 May 2010 21:54, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:34 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What does Nominatim search for a street name? street=xyz or name=xyz? > > > > It matters because in Ottawa most roads are labeled name=xyz not street, > and > > Nominatim doesn't seem to find them but the odd one or two that are > labeled > > street=xyz do come up. > > > > Example Richmond road is labeled street=richmond road, Nominatim finds it > > whilst Merkley Drive, Ottawa is not found. > > I'm not familiar with street= as an OSM tag. osmdoc.com shows 37 uses > of street= and 29 more of Street=. I suggest that using street as a > tag is probably a misunderstanding and street= is unlikely to have > support in many tools. > > addr:street is used more than 3 million times and is part of the > Karslruhe Schema for addressing. So the error may be related to > addressing. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema > > name= is used over 16 million times for road names and many other > object names. > > Nominatim is still reporting an out of date database. It is expected > to be repaired some time in May. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim > > Once repaired, I would expect nominatim to find Merkley Drive normally. > > I did find a Richmond Road, but it was already name=Richmond Road. > did you fix it? > > Best regards, > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
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