[talk-au] Suburbs & admin boundaries stopping streets being found?

[Warin]

On 30/8/20 3:40 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Having a problem with OSMAND that I think could be related back to the 
> way data has been entered, or later defined, in OSM?
>
> Playing with OSMAND yesterday & searched for a local street but it 
> came back "not found". Tried a number of others with some found & 
> others not. Then tried changing the search town from "Gold Coast" to 
> individual suburbs & all the "missing" streets in that suburb were 
> then found OK?
>
> If you'd like to please try yourself, in OSMAND, please set your city 
> / town to Gold Coast, then search Dawn Parade, Honeyeater Drive & Rio 
> Vista Boulevard. There should be nothing found for the first two, but 
> Rio Vista should appear but with only two results - intersections with 
> Furlong Street & Cleland Crescent.
>
> If you then set the city / town to Miami, Dawn Parade will show; 
> Burleigh Waters will find Honeyeater Drv & Broadbeach Waters will show 
> all of the Rio Vista Blvd results (~50 of them!)
>
> BTW, they can all be found fine in OSM itself eg Dawn Parade Miami 
> gives 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/182163166#map=17/-28.06847/153.43806
>
> I think there may be two things at play here?
>
> Only a few Gold Coast suburbs, including these ones, have had their 
> admin boundaries mapped (incidentally, as an aside, they've been 
> mapped as admin_level=10 - should they be =9?) eg 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/973018.
>
> In addition, the overall Gold Coast LGA boundary hasn't been mapped.
>
> Does that sound feasible?
>
> If so, what's the fix? It would appear that mapping an admin boundary 
> has convinced OSMAND that that area isn't part of the Gold Coast any 
> more? Would mapping the Gold Coast LGA as admin_level=8 resolve it?
>
> Or is this just another OSMAND problem? :-(


Think it is OSMand.

In NSW I tried some searches and could not find some streets.

However .. if I first searched for a town/suburb/hamlet and then 'went 
there' it would find the street... strange.

Admin levels of 6 and 10 were present for these .. did not test further.