Hi, due to popular demand OSM's search engine, Nominatim, has recently received support for the addr:place[1] tag. This tag can be used to make addresses searchable by Nominatim that do not belong to a street. Simply replace the usual addr:street with addr:place containing the region/place the housenumber belongs to. For example, this building: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/185887900 can now be found with this query: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=4+Pomocnia
For technical reasons, Nominatim requires that the location in your addr:place tag is mapped as well (and not too far away). Currently, it will happily attach your address to admin boundaries level 8 and higher, to place nodes of village level or smaller and also to named landuses. (The latter might be useful for block-based addresses.) This hopefully allows to cover most addressing schemas but there is one known exception: the conscription number schema used in some parts of Eastern Europe. Nominatim will either pick up the conscription number (if you add addr:place) or the street number (if you add addr:street) but it cannot process both at the same time. This will be fixed at some point but requires more extensive changes. If your country has some other addressing that still doesn't work with Nominatim, please let us know, preferably via trac[2] or github[3]. Happy address hunting Sarah [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place [2] https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ [3] https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
