Hi Sarah, Thanks for answering (in your free time) - this info definitively helps! Keep up the good work!
Greetings from Chile, Stefan > El 21-03-2015, a las 5:14, Sarah Hoffmann <[email protected]> escribió: > > Hi Stefan, > >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 06:58:06PM -0400, Stefan Steiniger wrote: >> Dear GeoCoders, >> >> I am having a database of traffic accidents. All accidents that >> happened at an intersections are described by giving the two street >> names. Is there an option to send such a request to Nominatim? >> I tried it with "Street A, and, Street B, City", without success. > > This is currently not implemented in Nominatim, so you have to > do it on your own. > >> Or: Would I have to fetch the geometry of either road and do then >> some processing with my client a la JTS: geom.intersect(geom2)? >> Assuming a small area -> planar 2D should be fine. >> If I need to do it this way: Does "polygon_geojson=1" give me the >> complete LineString as in the DB? > > Nominatim only returns the geometry of a single OSM way. That means > the result is inclomplete when the street has been split into > multiple ways because by default Nominatim only returns one result if > the streets look like duplicates. There is an option 'dedupe=0' which > ensures that you get all parts of the street that match your query. > That should then be enough to get all geometries you need. > >> PS: Btw. I am using iPython Notebook, so I guess shapely helps me >> here to do the JTS stuff, in case someone knows? > > Jep, shapely should provide all the functions you need. > > Regards > > Sarah _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
