> The lookup may be efficient, it is frequently wrong and again dependent of<br>> correct and complete admin_levels.<br>> Currently it places every street where I live (in the Netherlands) in<br>> Belgium and does not specify a town with it.<br>
> Looking for "Jacob van Marisring" returns "Jacob van Marisring, België<br>> 51.32,51.32 14558705 (Residential)". Searching for "Jacob van Marisring,<br>> Helden" even returns an error.<br>
<br>I was unaware I still had the country wrong for some places, I thought I'd found and fixed all these. Recalculating the street now produces the right result (as you can see if you re-do your search) so I'll do another forced update and try and get the last of these problems fixed.<br>
<br>> Also note that in the FAQ page of nominatim, the suggestion is done to fix<br>> errors by adding addr: or is_in: tags.<br><br>I feel you are rather miss-quoting the FAQ:<br><br>If a street or higher level feature (city, town, county, etc.) has the wrong address you can either add a is_in tag to provide an explicit address or, <b>preferably, draw a polygon or create an admin boundary relation for the feature that should contain it</b>. <br>
<br>note the second half of the sentence!<br><br>--<br> Brian<br>