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

[Steven Melendez]

Thanks Aster! That seems to have solved the problem beautifully.


On 7/19/13 10:27 AM, "Xiang, Aster" <asterxiang at wustl.edu> wrote:

> 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,
> 
> I¹m 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 I¹m 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? 
> 
> I¹ve 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 © 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 © 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 © 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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