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 Nominatim is still reporting an out of date database.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
