[OSM-dev] Nominatim does not retrieve seemingly correctly indexed entities

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:36:08AM +0100, Roland Ramthun wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I can't get my head around the OSM-operated Nominatim instance or hit a
> bug.
> 
> Looking at a building, Nominatim has several properties correctly
> indexed for this place in the "Address" section [1], together with
> sensible "Address rank" values.
> 
> When I use these properties, the result is not retrieved [2].
> 
> Do you have any idea what might be wrong here?

That's a problem on Nominatim's site. I've recently tweaked the
algorithm a bit to work better with searches for full addresses.
Looks like it has done some unintended harm for searches of
places with very long names. I'll have a look at it. Thank you
for the example.

Sarah