diff --git a/scripts/geodata/osm/formatter.py b/scripts/geodata/osm/formatter.py
index 562d6cbc..0058446a 100644
--- a/scripts/geodata/osm/formatter.py
+++ b/scripts/geodata/osm/formatter.py
@@ -864,7 +864,10 @@ class OSMAddressFormatter(object):
                 print('did {} formatted places'.format(i))
 
         for props, poly in iter(self.components.osm_admin_rtree):
-            point = poly.context.representative_point()
+            try:
+                point = poly.context.representative_point()
+            except ValueError:
+                point = poly.context.centroid
             lat = point.y
             lon = point.x
             props['lat'] = lat