Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Quinion
On 1 August 2012 14:48, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for jumping on this discussion. Does the population tag have any significance to Nominatim? We import it as an extra tag but it has no current effect on importance / ranking. Using wikipedia turns out to simplify the

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-31 Thread Greg Troxel
Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: So I'm somewhat confused about how nominatim actually works. A good example is the building I work in (10 park plaza Boston ma) the version of nominitum on

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-31 Thread Brian Quinion
Is it sensible to have a polygon for the boundary and also a node that locates precisely the cultural/logical center? Does Nominatim ignore the node when there is a same-named boundary? Or is there some way to have a relation for a town that has both a polygon and a center?

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
10, Park Plaza, Central Square, Bay Village, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 02116, United States of America. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=21777524 The Central Square, Bay Village and Middlesex are what are confusing me as they look to be points and I'm not sure

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us wrote: So I'm somewhat confused about how nominatim actually works. A good example is the building I work in (10 park plaza Boston ma) the version of nominitum on the website gets the correct location on the

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us writes: So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? No, I think it's: If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace it with a polygon. Not Just delete place nodes pgpaHaOu9jRqT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us writes: So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? No, I think it's: If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) calvin.metc...@state.ma.us writes: So basically if we see nodes like that, get rid of them? No, I think it's: If there's a node for the place, it's progress to replace it with a polygon.

Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

2012-07-30 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
it worked. -Original Message- From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 3:17 PM To: Greg Troxel Cc: Metcalf, Calvin; talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Greg Troxel g