That does seem to be the case, at least for Kansas: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/316956038
But this doesn't really help nominatim specifically or any other application that might want to do a "is in KS" search. I don't think I knew there WERE single nodes for states... Why are there? It doesn't really make much sense to represent information about such a large area in a single point on the map. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was commenting the other day on IRC that nominatim only worked on my >> address if I used "Kansas" but not "KS" as most people would. twain >> happened to be on and commented that a ref=KS tag on the state >> boundary would probably fix this. I checked and there are currently no >> state boundary relations with a ref=* tag. It seems like a decent idea >> to add them and it would obviously be trivial to do so with a few >> minutes work but I figured a change that affects the whole country >> should probably be mentioned on the mailing list first. Comments? > > Aren't the abbreviations already on the place (State) nodes? Better > to not put them in two places, right? Somebody want to double check > my memory? > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.3&lon=-98.5&zoom=4&layers=B000FTF > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
