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Street addresses don't work? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by pr06lefs@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22847797

Osmand doesn't appear to be able to locate street addresses. Like if I input something like "123 4th Street" all it can do is offer some cross streets, which may be miles away from my intended location.

Is there a way to augment it's data so street addresses work? Maybe there's a service I can add?

Similarly, it doesn't know the names of many businesses.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can check on openstreetmap.org whether the data is on OSM at all. If it isn't, you can add it yourself, there are many ways to edit OSM and tutorials where you can learn it. The specific documentation for address keys is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:*

In general, OsmAnd definitely does support searching for house numbers if they are correctly mapped in OSM. I've done it many times and tried it out just now too. So if it can't find any house numbers in the area you're looking at, that probably means they are just not on the map yet. OSM is and will always be a work in progress.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why are people manually inputting addresses instead of periodically updating with something like the national-address-database.

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@pr06lefs @schnurrito @openstreetmap

Because not everyone lives somewhere where open data exists. Even that map of a single country shows that
~40%(?) of the country is missing the relevant data.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

And the license maybe not compatible in some states:

Seven (7) Dark purple states may have data that is not in the public domain including: Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Carolina, and South Dakota.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

In some places that can be, has been, or is done, in others not, for various reasons including license compatibility, data quality, maintainability (how do you reliably detect whether a data point is already there), etc. There is plenty of information about imports and other automated edits and the rules surrounding them on the OSM wiki.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That means the area where you're looking hasn't been mapped. You or somebody needs to add the street address and businesses.

You can add POIs with Osmand and lots of other software. Everydoor is straightforward for adding businesses.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wish it was more up front about not having address search capability. Its a waste of time for someone expecting to replace google maps, taking the time to install the app and then it turns out they can't find anything.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

I prefer Organic Maps these days but I must admit that Magic Earth searches addresses quite well

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

The way i do it is use gps-coordinates.net and after getting gps coords i put those in osmand