Jonathan Bennett wrote on 05/07/2010 23:58:
On 05/07/2010 23:28, Guy Collins wrote:
Another search: "high street, barnstaple" and yes the result includes
various options but always "...Devon County, Kelland Cross...".
You'll find the answer here:
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=12741345
Kelland Cross has been tagged as place=region, which isn't right -- a
region is something more like the South West. I've changed it to
place=locality which some mappers are starting to use to denote small
places that are just names for the gaps between other places, and
other stuff like that.
Once Nominatim's database is updated the problem will go away.
For future reference, if you get strange search results use the
Nominatim home page to search for the problematic place, then click
through to the details. The area that Nominatim assumes the place
refers to is highlighted with a polygon.
Jonathan.
That's interesting, not come across that before. Just looked at my local
place and see that the polygons don't properly relate to the boundaries,
with a noticable overlap between Knowle (place_id=28498) and Dorridge
(place_id=674586). Am I right in thinking the way to fix this is to
delete the point and create an area of the correct shape? What cues do
people use for that - bearing in mind copyright issues of Crown
Copyright sources? Any other catches?
Spenny
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