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Street addresses don't work? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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