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Put state ID in small town names

Publicat per Oleg Shalaev el 2 Desembre 2011 en English.

I am using netbook + navit + openstreetmaps for GPS-navigation, and I realized that in USA it is sometimes important to put the name of the state together with the town name. For example, I live in Columbia (Missouri), but I could not find my Columbia among tens of others Columbias which exist in other states. Now I've renamed my Columbia into "Columbia MO", so it works better. I propose that also the others would do the same, especially for small towns.

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Comentari de joakimfors el 2 Desembre 2011 a les 03.09

Don't do that. It show up in the search just fine. On osm.org you have to press "More results" to get "Town Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, United States of America" which links here: osm.org/?minlon=-92.433837890625&minlat=38.8635368347168&maxlon=-92.2276153564453&maxlat=39.0294036865234

If Navit doesn't show enough detailed information then that is where the fix should go.

Comentari de Oleg Shalaev el 2 Desembre 2011 a les 03.39

Ok, then I'll rename it back now. Note, however, that I actually renamed "Columbia" to "Columbia MO" more than a week ago, and the openstreetmap search still works fine for "Town Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, United States of America".

Comentari de joakimfors el 2 Desembre 2011 a les 04.21

Yeah, looks like Nominatim is pretty broken still. Last update: 2011/08/19. :D

Comentari de ceyockey el 2 Desembre 2011 a les 14.22

Yes, Nominatim has not been updated for months, unfortunately.

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