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

submitted 4 months ago by pr06lefs@lemmy.ml to c/osmand@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Two things I've recently discovered:

The data simply isn't there. One of the reasons you can't find address is because nobody has entered them to OpenStreetMap.
OsmAnd search isn't good or intuitive. For the few places that do have addresses, you'll have to search for them in a very specific format: $CITY $STREET $NUMBER

If you want to contribute addresses you know to OpenStreetMap create an account here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Once you create an account, you'll be able to use editors to update the map.

Editors include:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/ (the edit button on the webpage, this editor is called iD)
https://rapideditor.org/ (made by facebook... very similar to iD)
https://streetcomplete.app/ (for your phone, easier to enter small bits of info)
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ (full fledged, industrial desktop editor)

After you update the map, you'll have to wait somewhere between 1 hour to 1 month for updates to propagate to different apps. OsmAnd has a pro tier that gets hourly map updates... although... I'm not sure if address data is included in those map updates or just other things like buildings...