Clifford, I do not like your statement in favor of deleting Bethesda from OSM.
- Serge On Jun 11, 2014 4:21 PM, "Clifford Snow" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> however folks may feel about CDPs, they aren't administrative government >> entities and the current tagging of them with an admin_level is clearly >> wrong (which Paul Norman pointed out to me a little while ago and he's >> absolutely right). if we can't get them out of the database then we should >> at least make an effort to come up with better tagging. >> > > After reading the message thread, I agree that CDP's do not belong in OSM. > I do think they describe some small rural areas but they are not > administrative boundaries in the in the state, county, city, neighborhood > sense. > > I think that Ian is correct that Nominatim is failing to find the address > because of the CDP boundary. But does that make Nominatim wrong or the > admin boundary? I can fix the admin boundary for this area, but that leaves > hundreds of others untouched. Anyone want to help me understand how to > remove the CDP for Union Hill-Novelty Hill CDP so I can test out if this > fixes the address search? > > Serge, I like having administrative boundaries in OSM. For one it makes > overpass area queries slick. I would prefer that boundaries be in a > separate layer. Just recently I've been adding park and rides in NW > Washington State. A number of the parking lots were connected to completely > unrelated objects. The parking lots had grown since they were originally > mapped. It made changing them a pain. That alone doesn't justify layers, > but instead it makes OSM somewhat easier to maintain. How layers get > implemented might involve separate tables or even databases, just so long > as the contributor has the sense that if the admin boundary needs fixing, > it is done from a separate layer. > > Clifford > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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