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Thank you! I checked here https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=New+Hartford&polygon_geojson=1&viewbox= https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.p

by anvaka 7y ago

Thank you! I checked here https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=New+Hartford&polygon_geojson=1&viewbox= https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=New+Hartfor... - looks like all other `New Hartford` have type "node" in the database, which doesn't give boundaries of the cities. We are thinking about fallback here: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7 https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/7 but what might work better in short term: try entering a county name, and then zoom in onto the place. It is not as convenient as having a city boundaries, sorry about that.

crazygringo 7y ago
Ah the counties work great! Never even would have occurred to me. And honestly, for many medium-sized towns, the county is more intuitive boundary anyways. Since it's not clear you could search by county, may I suggest including that as a tip or something? Otherwise it gives the impression the site is broken somehow. Or if it's possible, to find the smallest containing item that does have boundaries, whatever it is. (I don't know if OSM supports that performantly?)
- DuskStar 7y ago
  It's not just small cities that counties are useful for - Los Angeles (the city) is really fragmented, snaky thing while Los Angeles (the county) is actually geographically coherent.