Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

2014-11-08 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
Hi, On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 02:05:44AM -0600, Toby Murray wrote: Nominatim actually does not correctly use addr:city. You are correct in that it does assume a better match between physical border and postal city address. What happens is it actually puts city information on *roads* based on

Re: [Talk-us] New I.D Feature

2014-11-12 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
Hi, On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 10:33:58AM -0500, Richard Welty wrote: 1) the Census Bureau has an area based version of zip codes (postal codes to the non-US types) called ZCTA. it is not a complete representation, it covers about 30,000 of the 50,000 unique zip codes, but it covers all the ones

Re: [Talk-us] admin level for US states

2014-11-25 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:29:25AM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2014-11-24 21:18 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us: Assuming this table reflects the actual state of the map, most countries have chosen 4 for their state equivalents. Actually, many countries do

Re: [Talk-us] Nominatim address lookup

2014-12-06 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 01:11:28AM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: Is it just me or did Nominatim stop checking an external database for address lookups where in-DB addresses aren't available in the US? It never checked any external databases, it just uses house numbers from Tiger where they are