how to differentiate between ST.PETERSBURG in Russia and USA.

1	how to differentiate between ST.PETERSBURG in Russia and USA, I just want to use the name. st.petersburg asked 21 Jul '16, 17:00 srikanth18 26●1●1●2 accept rate: 0% about which website/service/whatever is your question? What are you using and doing? (21 Jul '16, 20:56) aseerel4c26 ♦

One Answer:

active answers oldest answers newest answers popular answers

The response from Nominatim has the importance field - essentially the "bigger" the place, the higher it scores. The Russian Petersburg is rated higher than the others.

Also, if you're expecting results to come primarily from a specific area, you set the viewbox request field; or even set bounded=1 if you only want your results to come from the viewbox area.

As for detecting "which of the Petersburgs is where": you can check the coordinates, which is not very precise.

Alternatively, you can pass the request field addressdetails=1, which will give you a hierarchy - checking the address.country_code might be sufficient here.

See the documentation at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim for more options.

permanent link

answered 21 Jul '16, 17:10

Piskvor
1.3k●9●15●35
accept rate: 37%

edited 21 Jul '16, 17:11

Follow this question

By Email:

Once you sign in you will be able to subscribe for any updates here

By RSS:

Answers

Answers and Comments

Markdown Basics

*italic* or _italic_
**bold** or __bold__
link:[text](http://url.com/ "title")
image?![alt text](/path/img.jpg "title")
numbered list: 1. Foo 2. Bar
to add a line break simply add two spaces to where you would like the new line to be.
basic HTML tags are also supported

learn more about Markdown

Question tags:

st.petersburg ×1

question asked: 21 Jul '16, 17:00

question was seen: 1,206 times

last updated: 21 Jul '16, 20:56

how to differentiate between ST.PETERSBURG in Russia and USA.

Follow this question

Related questions