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Put state ID in small town names

Publeyêe per Oleg Shalaev lo 2 December 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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Discussion

Comentèro de joakimfors lo 2 December 2011 a 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.

Comentèro de Oleg Shalaev lo 2 December 2011 a 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".

Comentèro de joakimfors lo 2 December 2011 a 04:21

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

Comentèro de ceyockey lo 2 December 2011 a 14:22

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

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