Here's another fact about Nominatim that I learned after a private conversation with Sarah.
Nominatim has the possibility to install a default language for a country. This is not done for Belgium, but can be done for The Netherlands. Right now, the list is not complete and The Netherlands is missing. What is the result ? In case you configure multiple languages in your browser, e.g. NL & DE, you will see DE results in case there is a DE-name and no explicit NL-name. This is the case for Zutphen. What will be the impact for Belgium ? Suppose a Flemish town is mapped as name=X and name:fr=Y . You install both NL and FR in your browser. A search will now return Y. This means we might have to map name:NL explicitly. I know some will consider this as mapping for the tool. Nominatim has no way (I asked) to do this on other levels than countries. So there is no possibility to tell it the default language for Flanders or Wallonia. Hope this explains why in some case you get unexpected results from Nominatim search regards m _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
