Sarah Hoffmann
Sarah Hoffmann
The Special Phrase pages in the wiki get the occasional entry for tag combinations that don't really exist. Two things: a) make sure the key list is restricted to tags...
Nominatim sometimes presents results that are not directly related to an OSM object. These are: * postcode (country + postcode + a parent OSM object) * interpolations (OSM way +...
I'd like to see collection and translation of the special phrases shared with other projects, so that the barrier of for contribution becomes lower. The iD project has started a...
We currently have hard-coded default language settings per country to help guess the language of a `name` tag. The OSM admin data comes with a [default_language tag](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:default_language) that might be...
The flex output implements most features we need for importing the `place` table. Therefore we don't need a separate output anymore. The Lua style file would also allow a lot...
The `place_classtype_*` tables are there so that places can be searched by their type, for example `restaurants in Hickeroy`. They are extra tables because it is not possible to have...
We'd like to have an interface where people can report search results that they think to be wrong. The website would need to record the relevant parts of the search...
Example: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=bergstr&polygon_geojson=1&viewbox=13.39215%2C52.53288%2C13.39942%2C52.53060 contains Bergstr.
JSONB offers the same functionality (and more) in Postgres as hstore but has the advantage that it is an internal datatype, so no extensions required. Given that we require json...
Some countries like the UK or the Netherlands have hierarchical postcodes where a part of the postcode can be left out to designate a larger area. In OSM both the...