Thanks Aster! That seems to have solved the problem beautifully.
On 7/19/13 10:27 AM, "Xiang, Aster" <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you import the TIGER data as well? If not, you may find this post helpful > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/12150/missing-house-numbers-in-local- > nominatim-instance. > > I had the same problem before, which is no house numbers, then the problem was > solved after importing TIGER data. > > Hope this helps, > > Aster > > > > From: Steven Melendez [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 9:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Geocoding] Better Results on Openstreetmap.org than our own instance > > 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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