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Odd result for "Where am I" #3176

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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Odd result for "Where am I" #3176

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments

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Reporter: ToB
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 8.48am, Tuesday, 17th August 2010]

Go to [http://osm.org/go/0GCUeHod--] and click then on the "Where am I?" link of/above the search box.

Result:

9, 52428, Kln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hereby, one has:

  • Germany = Country
  • North Rhine-Westphalia = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany State]
  • Kln = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regierungsbezirk administrative region (Regierungsbezirk)]
  • 52428 = postal code
  • 9 = ? No idea what it this is.

If one one zooms in by one level, one gets:

Rmerstrae, Jlich, Dren, 52428, Kln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

  • Dren = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Germany district (Kreis)]
  • Jlich = town
  • Rmerstrae = street

Expected: Even for the first link, the town name is shown - printing the administrative region ("Regierungsbezirk Kln" though only "Kln" is shown, which is also a city which is a 50 km away) is highly irritating. Printing additionally the district ("Kreis Dren" - only "Dren" is printed which is also a town 20 km away) is better, but only a tad.

Since the administrative boundary of the town Jlich extends much further than the part shown for the link, there is really no reason not to shown the town name. ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=158408 Administrative] [http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/158408 boundary])

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Author: openstreetmap[at]firefishy.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.40pm, Wednesday, 18th August 2010]

The node:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/126136267

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.43pm, Thursday, 13th December 2012]

House number issue seems fixed and the administrative prefixes have been added in the OSM data.

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