Mon, 04/20/2020 - 08:35
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Data Errors in mapquest nomatim vs the openstreetmap instance
When i search for 3945 Gampel on the openstreetmap data, i get the correct coordinates: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=3945%2C+switzerland&pol...
The same on mapquest gives me no results http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/search.php?key={KEY}&accept-language=de&format=json&addressdetails=0&countrycodes=ch&country=ch&q=3945
When searching for "Gampel" in the mapquest nomatim, i get results for 3940 which in reality would be the zip code of Steg-Hohtenn, a place nearby but not the same place.
Why is the data different? I understood that the nomatim service on mapquest would provide the same data as openstreetmap.org has.
i had understood only the code version would be different, not the data set. (i would assume data and application are separate updates, but that was just a guess)
do you know how frequently MapQuest updates nomatim (interested in the data, not the nomatim server application)?
well that is good to know. i did not see a warning anywhere that this is the case. would be nice if mapquest would put that in a large red box onto the documentation - i only started using this last year and did not notice any such warning.