My .02, Nominatim is extremely Euro (and especially British) centric in its view of the world. While it does the job, it doesn't even do an ideal job in the United States, which is a country that shares the same language.
My hope for OSM geocoding long term is for there to be greater diversity in geocoders, such as Photon (which uses parts of Nominatim) and Pelias, which doesn't share any code with Nominatim. It might make a lot more sense, based on the differences not only in language but also in addressing systems, for the Japanese community to put their efforts into a new geocoder which specifically addresses their needs. - Serge On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Akiko Goto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have created new ticket #5150, at OpenStreetMap Trac. > > https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/5150 > > I hope someone to reply to this ticket. > > ----(content)------------------------------------------------------------- > > I have tried to geocode address in Japan using Nominatim, but it does not > work. It only work for major city and ward. Threr is a detailed data that > government provide. So could someone that is developping Nominatim apply > that data for Nominatim? > > That data can be used freely. It can be download from their website. There > is no license. They say that; "Use these data freely, but there is no > guarantee." > > I placed sample data to my server (35MB). This is just a part of total data. > I hope it is to be sample. > > http://onlineconsultant.tv/osm/nominatim/14_2012.csv > > I have already asked this question at OSM Help. > > > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/32091/nominatim-geocoding-for-japan > ese-address > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Regards, > Akiko Goto > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
