Hello Stefan, Sunday, March 15, 2009, 5:52:33 PM, you wrote: SB> Yes, it would. But maybe it's the wrong approach to identify the SB> housenumber and then look it up. Instead, building a list of all SB> available housenumber/street combinations from the dataset and doing a SB> "similar" search might yield the best results, independently from the SB> exact address definition (similar means like Google does its "did you SB> mean…?" feature).
Note that Google Maps finds "near" streets. If it cannot find hous number 15 but knows about 14 and 16 then it will lead you to one of these houses and tell you that the result is an approximation. SB> Otherwise I really don't see a way to get it right everytime. Did you get my reply with a rather simple solution of two days ago? Udo _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
