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Nominatim results priority.

Hello,

I'm not sure if there is an issue with Nominatim or the tagging with these search results(the latter is a little poor) that have been reported to me, so I'm going to ask here before reporting or improving.

Search for

"Trelissick" and you find a building (small residential cottage) in Porthleven.
"Trelissick, Coombe" you find many things relating to the NT property, probably what you were looking for.
"Trelissick Gardens" or "Trelissick House" and you find those objects which are NT properties.
"Trelissick, Cornwall" you get the residential building in Porthleven again, although the NT objects are equally in Cornwall.

I'm wondering if leisure=garden is not "of interest" enough and a relation object with tourism=attraction + name="Trelissick House and Gardens" would be better.

When I do this, I'll also want to get rid of all the (descriptions) in the name values and replace them with access or operator tags as appropriate.

search nominatim tagging

asked 23 Jul '14, 19:05

LivingWithDr...
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accept rate: 4%

One Answer:

This is happening because nominatim always shows exact matches before partial matches regardless of the relative importance of the different features. It is a known issue but very hard to resolve.

Within that the importance of a feature is mostly calculated via any wikipedia links. In general adding appropriate wikipedia links to the feature will resolve most problem - although not in this case due to the exact match issue.

answered 25 Jul '14, 13:26

twain
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accept rate: 40%