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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:

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.

answered 21 Jul '16, 17:10

Piskvor
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edited 21 Jul '16, 17:11