On 5 Oct 2010, at 08:43, Ed Avis wrote: > Shaun McDonald <shaun <at> shaunmcdonald.me.uk> writes: > >>>> For example according to Nominatim Surrey covers most of London >>>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=559111 >>> >>> Is there a reason why Nominatim doesn't use the administrative county >>> boundaries? >> >> Do you have an example of one in the osm data that it doesn't use? > > Perhaps I misunderstood what you wrote. I thought you meant that Nominatim > when > searching for 'Surrey' will use the rough polygon for place=county rather than > the boundary of Surrey administrative county.
Yep, there is no polygon for the boundary of Surrey that I'm aware of, thus the use of the generated polygon. Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
