Hi there, I¹m Steven Melendez, and I work at WNYC Radio in New York on data news projects.
We have a large number of New York City addresses we were hoping to geocode, and got good results from http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ so we decided to install Nominatim locally on an Ubuntu machine. Anyway, I followed the installation instructions and loaded http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/new-york-latest.osm.pbf (as of yesterday) into the database, but I¹m generally not able to find particular house numbers on my local instance, even though I can on nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Is there some other data file I also need to load? I¹ve tried with both the latest release version of nominatim and the head version from github, with the same result. For instance, for our offices, the query search.php?q=160+varick+st%2C+10013&format=json on openstreetmap.org finds the exact location of our offices at 160 Varick St, returning [ { place_id: "5108296943", licence: "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright";, boundingbox: [ 40.726551, 40.726651, -74.005572666667, -74.005472666667 ], lat: "40.726601", lon: "-74.0055226666667", display_name: "160, Varick Street, West Village Houses, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 10013, United States of America", class: "place", type: "house", importance: 0.715 } ] but on my local machine it returns [ { place_id: "582751", licence: "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright";, osm_type: "way", osm_id: "46139034", boundingbox: [ "40.7243995666504", "40.7286033630371", "-74.0060195922852", "-74.0053100585938" ], lat: "40.726435", lon: "-74.005658", display_name: "Varick Street, West Village Houses, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 10014, United States of America", class: "highway", type: "primary", importance: 0.6 }, { place_id: "610256", licence: "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright";, osm_type: "way", osm_id: "68675820", boundingbox: [ "40.7182655334473", "40.7204399108887", "-74.0070571899414", "-74.0066909790039" ], lat: "40.7191033", lon: "-74.0069601", display_name: "Varick Street, Tribeca, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 10014, United States of America", class: "highway", type: "secondary", importance: 0.6 } ] which seems to only find two points along the street. Any thoughts as to why the discrepancy, and if there is something I can do/load into my system to make it more precise? Thanks for your help, Steven Melendez
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