<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Droid Power <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:droidgsm2013@gmail.com" target="_blank">droidgsm2013@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In Ecuador it is quite common for places to be identified by the two intersecting streets since street numbering is not consistent. Yet it seems OSM does not allow this, is this a bug or my fault?</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you mean while using the place search on the OSM website?<br><br></div><div>I think the default search engine software, Nominatim, is not yet capable of searching for intersections. If you want, you can file a feature request on the Github project page: <a href="https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues">https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues</a><br>
<br></div><div>For other software and apps (like OsmAND), you may also need to file for feature requests so that intersection searching can work on those.<br><br></div><div>However, if you mean tagging addresses with street intersections, there is no "official" way to tag addresses with 2 streets.<br>
<br></div><div>Such addresses are common in my country and so we have adopted the addr:street:corner=* tag, in addition to the addr:street=* tag, to identify the secondary street address intersection:<br><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Astreet%3Acorner">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Astreet%3Acorner</a><br>
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