Help - search results using coordinates give partially incorrect info

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Hi…

If I search OSM using the coordinates S35° 04.290 E147° 21.400 then the search results bring up the following :

Doman Street, Estella, Pregan Island, Wagga Wagga City Council, New South Wales, 2650, Australia

Looking at this information it generally appears correct apart from the addition of Pregan Island.

I don’t fathom why Pregan Island is included as it has nothing to do with the location of the coordinates.

Is there a way to correct this information with the correct information (if required) or delete it?

Thanks

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I assume you are looking for Doman Street (or around there). A breakdown of the search results can be viewed here. The listed address information is used for displaying the results you got.

I figure Pregan Island is the closes hamlet node of it’s kind to Doman Street which is why Nominatim, the search engine for OSM, is using that. I have no knowledge of Wagga Wagga or Pregan Island but superficially it seems that place=hamlet is not quite fitting for Pregan Island as it seems to be no more than an empty field. It also seems like a rather old data import.

My first thought would be to downgrade the node to place=locality, depending on the significance of Pregan Island. Which hopefully you might know more about.

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Thank you very much Kartonage your assistance was excellent. :slight_smile:

While I fully agree with you that place=locality was more fitting than place=hamlet, I went to the New South Wales Geographical Names Board, who state it is a “rural place” and also says “A locality at Wagga Wagga comprising the partially enclosed area between the Murrumbidgee River and the Parkan Pregan Lagoon, 1 km S of the suburb of North Wagga Wagga.”

I also only know Pregan Island as being an area included in the suburb of North Wagga Wagga.

I have downgraded the node to place=locality and trust that this will amend the inaccuracy of Pregan Island being included in the coordinate search previously mentioned.

Thank you so very much, I am most appreciative of your help.