Wrong city name !
Wrong city name !
All searches in my town (Gatineau) list it as Ottawa but should be Gatineau.
Gatineau - Quebec - Canada Is not Ottawa - Ontario - Canada
It's very annoying and error inducing.
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Gatineau - Quebec - Canada Is not Ottawa - Ontario - Canada
And it's definitely not Ottawa - Quebec - Canada. That's extra confusing!
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This is why osm is great, submit a change!
Just an idea, I don't do this so you may want to hear from someone who does 😅
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Um, yeah ... about that :
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Don’t quote me on this but i’m fairly sure someone can triangulate your home location from these distances so maybe censor it a bit?
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All they will find is a restaurant lol but you are right.
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Why is this in English? Canada should only be French.
/s
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The seach engine tries to infer the correct administrative area based on points. This is known behaviour of
nominatimsome search engines but doesn't mean that the data is incorrectWell I don't know what is not incorrect if it list the incorrect city name.
Outaouais and Ottawa don't overlap in the data, so OSM data is correct.
They do show up here because Nomatim is wrong, I'm sure Nomatim devs do their best but it's often wrong, adding nearby locations.
I think here it sees this nearby node as near enough to be probably the correct city instead of looking at the boundary relation.
Is OrganicMaps using Nominatim? It seems that Nominatim's reverse geocoding returns the correct results there: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N&osmid=1134851553&class=place
Oh, damn, I didn't notice this was OM. I wrongly assumed this was the main website.