Hello everyone, I'm trying to do some reverse geocoding using Nominatim. So far it's great. However, there is a problem. I'll give an example: I've put some coordinates of a city that is yet to be mapped. Here are some coordinates: lat: -24.18019,lon: -46.78167 - Returns a road called "Av. Condessa de Vimieiros", even though those coordinates belong to "Av. Rui Barbosa". lat: -24.18083, lon: -46.78525 - Returns a road called "Av. Condessa de Vimieiros", even though those coordiantes belong to "R. João Mariano Ferreira". Now, I think that this one road is being returned because it's the nearest thing mapped to the coordinates I provided. But is there some parameter Nominatim returns to identify wheter or not the location is precise? Or is there even a way to do this? Thanks. asked 14 Feb '13, 18:30  gabriel_casado edited 15 Feb '13, 09:11  Vincent de P... ♦ |
One Answer:
The nominatim api does not have this feature. answered 15 Feb '13, 14:45  cartinus There is no workaround to this? (15 Feb '13, 15:34) gabriel_casado There are always workarounds:
Yes, I understand this is not the answer you wanted to get, but sometimes life is just that way. (15 Feb '13, 16:57) cartinus I get it. Thanks. (15 Feb '13, 17:01) gabriel_casado |
Just to be clear about the problem: there is a street at the selected coordinates, but it doesn't have a name (and therefore no nominatim place_id ?), so nominatime returns the closest named object without a mention of the nameless one.
@Vincent de Phily
Exactly this. There is a street in the said coordinate, but it doesn't have a name so it returns the closest one.
Is there a way to impeach Nominatim from returning me the closest place, and instead returning me an error message or something?