[OSM-talk] Cannot find address ringvegen 45 Sørkjosen in nominatim

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 10:37:48PM +0200, pangoSE wrote:
> Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de> skrev: (23 augusti 2020 22:20:35 CEST)
> >Nominatim only indexes addresses of streets and then searches for
> >address nodes based on the address of the street they are attached
> >to.
> >
> >In that particular example, the housenumber got attached to Hovedvegen
> >because Nominatim could not find a 'Ringvegen' and used the nearest
> >street:
> >https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N&osmid=3117603944
> >
> >So you get a slightly different address than expected.
> >Fix the name of the street and everything sorts itself out.
> 
> 👌 thanks for the explanation and link. Are these very useful get parameters documented somewhere? 

https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/api/Details/

Use the details page without any paramaters to get a form where
you can select which OSM object to show information about:
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html

Sarah