Al Wa'rat in Nominatim

yrtimiD · 2011-10-15T20:46:44.000Z

Somebody can explain me what is “Al Wa’rat” in Nominatim results while searching for “Tel-Aviv”? The first result is: “City Tel Aviv-Yafo, Al Wa’rat, Tel Aviv District, Israel, Asia”

Thanks.

dimka · 2011-10-16T07:24:30.000Z

Hi,

see previous thread:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=12394

The Al Wa’arat node was changed to place=village in August this year by adrukh, so I guess the Nominatim engine uses outdated data, see its details on Tel-Aviv:
http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/details.php?place_id=951869

dimka