Reporter: David Paleino
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 1.15pm, Wednesday, 27th April 2011]

Hello,

check this result:

http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/details.php?place_id=2133055671

Via Giovanni Bessarione (Type: highway:tertiary, way 109368643, 15, , Polygon, 0 GOTO)
Mazara del Vallo (Type: boundary:administrative, relation 39318, 8, , Point, 0.0842660761759271 GOTO)
Trapani (Type: boundary:administrative, relation 39166, 6, , Point, 0.201223571443735 GOTO)
Isola Grande (Type: boundary:administrative, way 10364827, 4, , Point, 0.247943334970063 GOTO)
91026 (Type: place:postcode, , , Point, 0.0237432108093155 GOTO)
Italia (Type: boundary:administrative, relation 365331, 2, , Point, 4.33148222531914 GOTO)

The admin_level=4 boundary detected is wrong. In fact, the nearest admin_level=4 is [http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/33900429 the coastline], and should be detected as [http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/39152 relation "Sicilia"].

I can't exactly tell what is behaviour is due to. "Italia", for example, is a relation spread all over Italy, so I'd say that "Sicilia" would be detected too. Maybe it prefers nearest closed ways instead of nearest (not closed) ways?

Kindly,

David