Hello,
I just read the thread "Housenumbers" and found that this is a similar but not the same topic. That´s why I create a new thread:
The following issue applies on searching for addresses in order to navigate there or to show them on the map:
If you type a street name you often get a list of different sections. This is good in case you don´t know a house number but the suburb/area name only and look for a rough position of the street on the map. But if you look for house numbers you need to know in which section the house is located. in other words: If you have five sections you need to search all five sections separately until you – by chance – catch the one which contains your house number.
To solve this issue an "ALL" item should always be displayed to let it search in all segments. And if there is a house number twice a next screen should display it as list again in connection with the street section name.
Second issue: The split of the streets into sections is sometimes unclear. So you sometimes ask yourself which rule was applied to perform the assignment. This is probably connected to the OSM data somehow. But even knowing that it´s sometimes strange.
Third issue: It seems to depend on the way you search which street sections are offered for selection. I have a specific example in Germany:
House 654:
addr:city Köln
addr:country DE
addr:housenumber 654
addr:postcode 50827
addr:street Venloer Straße
House 548:
addr:city Köln
addr:country DE
addr:housenumber 548
addr:postcode 50825
addr:street Venloer Straße
I looked for the first one (654) and selected Germany as country, "Köln" as City and "venloer" as street. 5 sections were offered, and the last one (Ehrenfeld) seemed to be the correct one. But then a list of 45 house number clusters was displayed which reached up to 567 only. Even when I typed 654 in directly I got no result, same with the other 4 street sections.
Then I tried the post code 50827 instead of "Köln" and got a different list of 4 street sections for "venloer". One of them contained the missing higher house numbers including the one I looked for. In this case the street sections were kind of hierarchical, by the way. One seemed to be a combination of the other two.
So there are two main questions from my side:
I just read the thread "Housenumbers" and found that this is a similar but not the same topic. That´s why I create a new thread:
The following issue applies on searching for addresses in order to navigate there or to show them on the map:
If you type a street name you often get a list of different sections. This is good in case you don´t know a house number but the suburb/area name only and look for a rough position of the street on the map. But if you look for house numbers you need to know in which section the house is located. in other words: If you have five sections you need to search all five sections separately until you – by chance – catch the one which contains your house number.
To solve this issue an "ALL" item should always be displayed to let it search in all segments. And if there is a house number twice a next screen should display it as list again in connection with the street section name.
Second issue: The split of the streets into sections is sometimes unclear. So you sometimes ask yourself which rule was applied to perform the assignment. This is probably connected to the OSM data somehow. But even knowing that it´s sometimes strange.
Third issue: It seems to depend on the way you search which street sections are offered for selection. I have a specific example in Germany:
House 654:
addr:city Köln
addr:country DE
addr:housenumber 654
addr:postcode 50827
addr:street Venloer Straße
House 548:
addr:city Köln
addr:country DE
addr:housenumber 548
addr:postcode 50825
addr:street Venloer Straße
I looked for the first one (654) and selected Germany as country, "Köln" as City and "venloer" as street. 5 sections were offered, and the last one (Ehrenfeld) seemed to be the correct one. But then a list of 45 house number clusters was displayed which reached up to 567 only. Even when I typed 654 in directly I got no result, same with the other 4 street sections.
Then I tried the post code 50827 instead of "Köln" and got a different list of 4 street sections for "venloer". One of them contained the missing higher house numbers including the one I looked for. In this case the street sections were kind of hierarchical, by the way. One seemed to be a combination of the other two.
So there are two main questions from my side:
- What drives the assignment of an address to a city, post code and street? Is it the tags listed above? Or is it some post code / city relations? Or is it a combination? Comparing the two houses above you find that the only difference is the post code. So I wonder why they don´t appear together when searching for "Köln".
- Why is there no option to search for a house number in all streets of the searched name (see "ALL" approach above)? This would make things much easier. Currently it´s quite annoying in most cases, especially if you search for addresses in regions you don´t know (which is the normally the case).
The search history seems to have changed a little bit recently. It works better than before but is still not as intuitive as on most other navigations. Thanks, by the way, for ignoring spaces at the end of auto completed seach terms now. This helps a lot.