On 14/12/2015 08:25, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:

Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks
wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan. That's what
throwing off Nominatim. Having a wikipedia page boosts the importance
of an object.

Have you considered that the program is over weighting the importance of a wiki page?

Do end users want to find a coffee shop local to them or one thousands of kilometres away just because it has an extra tag attached?

  And in this case the boost is quite large because
the Starbucks wiipedia page is pretty prominent.

Prominent to who? Could you expand your explanation please?

Cheers
David F.


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