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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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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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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're putting in street numbers and only getting back streets, chances are that street number does not exist in openstreetmap yet and you'll need to add it

[–] Debs@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

There is something more going on here. As I was running the above example, the results would vary. Every once in a while it would even find the museum correctly. So open street maps does have it in their database. It just was misinterpreting what it thought I was looking for.