[Geocoding] Better Results on Openstreetmap.org than our own instance

[Xiang, Aster]

Have you import the TIGER data as well? If not, you may find this post helpful https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/12150/missing-house-numbers-in-local-nominatim-instance.

I had the same problem before, which is no house numbers, then the problem was solved after importing TIGER data.

Hope this helps,

Aster


From: Steven Melendez [mailto:smelendez at wnyc.org]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 9:21 AM
To: geocoding at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Geocoding] Better Results on Openstreetmap.org than our own instance

Hi there,

I'm Steven Melendez, and I work at WNYC Radio in New York on data news projects.

We have a large number of New York City addresses we were hoping to geocode, and got good results from http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ so we decided to install Nominatim locally on an Ubuntu machine.

Anyway, I followed the installation instructions and loaded http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/new-york-latest.osm.pbf (as of yesterday) into the database, but I'm generally not able to find particular house numbers on my local instance,  even though I can on nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Is there some other data file I also need to load?

I've tried with both the latest release version of nominatim and the head version from github, with the same result.

For instance, for our offices, the query search.php?q=160+varick+st%2C+10013&format=json on openstreetmap.org finds the exact location of our offices at 160 Varick St, returning

[
{
place_id: "5108296943",
licence: "Data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
boundingbox: [
40.726551,
40.726651,
-74.005572666667,
-74.005472666667
],
lat: "40.726601",
lon: "-74.0055226666667",
display_name: "160, Varick Street, West Village Houses, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 10013, United States of America",
class: "place",
type: "house",
importance: 0.715
}
]

but on my local machine it returns

[
{
place_id: "582751",
licence: "Data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
osm_type: "way",
osm_id: "46139034",
boundingbox: [
"40.7243995666504",
"40.7286033630371",
"-74.0060195922852",
"-74.0053100585938"
],
lat: "40.726435",
lon: "-74.005658",
display_name: "Varick Street, West Village Houses, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 10014, United States of America",
class: "highway",
type: "primary",
importance: 0.6
},
{
place_id: "610256",
licence: "Data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright",
osm_type: "way",
osm_id: "68675820",
boundingbox: [
"40.7182655334473",
"40.7204399108887",
"-74.0070571899414",
"-74.0066909790039"
],
lat: "40.7191033",
lon: "-74.0069601",
display_name: "Varick Street, Tribeca, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 10014, United States of America",
class: "highway",
type: "secondary",
importance: 0.6
}
]

which seems to only find two points along the street.

Any thoughts as to why the discrepancy, and if there is something I can do/load into my system to make it more precise?

Thanks for your help,

Steven Melendez
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