Hi Sarah

Sarah Hoffmann <lon...@denofr.de> skrev: (23 augusti 2020 22:20:35 CEST)
>Hi,
>
>On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:41:10PM +0200, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> Node 3117603944 was established in 2014 with tags
>> addr:city    Sørkjosen
>> addr:housenumber     45
>> addr:postcode        9152
>> addr:street  Ringvegen
>> 
>> Yet, when I query nominatim for Ringvegen 45 Sørkjosen I get no
>results.
>> 
>> What is going wrong here? Sørkjosen itself is found [2] so the
>problem does
>> not seem to lie in the special character (I wouldn't have thought
>so). Also
>> found is the street which is named Ringveien [3] in OSM. No idea why
>the
>> street is called different than the address node, but does Nominatim
>not
>> index address nodes?
>
>Nominatim only indexes addresses of streets and then searches for
>address nodes based on the address of the street they are attached
>to.
>
>In that particular example, the housenumber got attached to Hovedvegen
>because Nominatim could not find a 'Ringvegen' and used the nearest
>street:
>https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N&osmid=3117603944
>
>So you get a slightly different address than expected.
>Fix the name of the street and everything sorts itself out.

👌 thanks for the explanation and link. Are these very useful get parameters 
documented somewhere? 

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