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girzel | 3 years ago

I am 100% in on OSMand and the whole ecosystem, but I still curse out loud every time I have to enter a street address into its address "parser". I know it's a hard problem, but it's horrible. None of the app's other shortcomings are meaningful to me.

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ygra|3 years ago

Didn't OSMand do something strange to guess addresses instead of using reverse geocoding? I seem to remember that there were plenty of addresses that are actually in OSM and Nominatim has no trouble finding that OSMand cannot find or places in wildly different places.

openmapsguy|3 years ago

Addresses in OSM are in expanded format eg 100 south 35th street. What you’re entering is likely 100 s 35th st. Osmand looks for exact string matches so it won’t find the address.