Node exists on OSM, but Nominatim lookup returns empty

Hello - Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this issue.

I've encountered an issue pulling down node metadata from Nominatim:

Node exists -> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1984103891
Node metadata exists -> https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/1984103891
Place exists in Nominatim, referencing the node: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/lookup?place_id=20053249
BUT nothing returned from a node lookup Nominatim ->https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/lookup?osm_ids=N1984103891

What am I doing missing here?

Thanks again!

asked 01 Nov '18, 12:54

tlsfm
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One Answer:

With (3) the URL actually returns to an empty result.

Nominatim links place nodes and relations together when they represent the same. It looks at relation role admin_centre. In this case it gets linked to https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?osmtype=R&osmid=5996511&class=boundary On the small map you can see the center point is not the geographical center of the polygon but the coordinate of the linked node.

The /lookup endpoint doesn't seem to follow the link when querying by OSM type and OSM id. Or maybe it shouldn't because it would then return another OSM object (the relation).

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answered 01 Nov '18, 13:30

mtmail
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I'd definitely call this a bug. Please report it on https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues

(01 Nov '18, 13:33) lonvia

Thanks for the quick responses.

I'm still a little lost about why XML is missing in Nominatim... bear with me ....

So, I want the metadata for this node (Kyaukpyu)

1984103891

In OSM this defined as the admin centre of both Kyaukpyu District and Kyaukpyu Township. Might this be a problem?

(01 Nov '18, 14:16) tlsfm

Nominatim has the full data of the node in its database. It's a bug if no result is returned for a direct /lookup query.

(01 Nov '18, 14:21) mtmail

OK, thanks @mtmail @lonvia... over to the issue queue I go.

(01 Nov '18, 14:27) tlsfm

Tracking it here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/1222

(01 Nov '18, 14:47) tlsfm

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Node exists on OSM, but Nominatim lookup returns empty

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