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David Riccitelli
David Riccitelli

Reputation: 7812

same coordinates yield different results in Nominatim and MapQuest

According to Nominatim and MapQuest, the following end-points should provide the same data:

In fact

The Nominatim Search Service is similar to our MapQuest Search Service with its simple interface and powerful capabilities, but instead relies solely on data contributed to OpenStreetMap.

Therefore I would expect the two services to provide the same data, nevertheless the following query for the same coordinates (41.904163, 12.485597) yields different results:

Results:

Why?

NOTE: as of 12.44 PM UTC (July 1st, 2013) OSM is returning the same results as MapQuest. There are a couple of related discussions on GitHub:

Upvotes: 0

Views: 787

Answers (1)

David Riccitelli
David Riccitelli

Reputation: 7812

This is a bug in Nominatim, which is going to be fixed:

Nominatim was no longer searching for objects below street level (house numbers, POIs, etc.) due to this commit. It only concerned the instance on osm.org.

See issue #66 on GitHub: https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues/66

Upvotes: 1

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