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Why does CoMaps seem to not understand addresses? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Debs@lemmy.zip to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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There is a frustrating issue with the CoMaps work flow. If I copy an address from Google maps into the CoMaps search bar, the application cannot find it.

For example, if I copy the address listed for the Portland Art Museum into CoMaps search:

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205

The search result varies. Sometimes it is:

Southwest 18th Avenue, 1219

Sometimes it is for the entire road:

Southwest Park Avenue

Is there a syntax issue here? You would think this would be a very easy find.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then give me the option for a form with "number, Street, City, State/province" as an option.

Comaps is great when you know your lat/lon. The search is terrible to the point of broken though.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Problem is not everywhere in the world they use that style of addresses. Japan famously doesn't use street names for the most part, for example.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No shit - but you don't use one form for all locales. You can localize it. The parsing it does now is broken to the point that I lookup places in Google Maps and copy coordinates to Comaps because even when it has the address it only works like 80% of the time.

[–] BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Noone stops you from writing an issue or even implement what you say in code.