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Wrong geo position for an adress. It seems that the townname is ignored #535

Open Scyten opened 3 years ago

Scyten commented 3 years ago

I added a contact with Name, Street + Number, Postal code and Townname. The Marker is placed in another town nearby (with an other town name of course) which has the same postalnumber and also has a street with the same name.

Example - Contact: Peter Pan Famous Street 10 22419 Whereever

Example - Wrong Marker at: Peter Pan Famous Street 10 22419 Example Town

My guess is that the town name is not taken into account, because most of the time the key with street and postal code is unique. If this is the case it would be an easy fix.

Spartachetto commented 3 years ago

the geocoding is done by Nominatim , if I am not wrong.

My advice would be to verify the mapping of this place in OpenStreetMap . If you find the same problem there you could try to improve the map or to ask for improvements by putting a note. To put a note on the map you can use the penultimate white icon on dark gray from top that you find on the right of the map.

HTH!

RonaldBarnes commented 3 years ago

I've noticed that adding postal codes to Canadian addresses causes them to disappear from NextCloud's Map app.

I suspect it's an issue with OpenStreetMaps. Testing that, it does find the postal code in question but not when combined into a full address.

Spartachetto commented 3 years ago

I'd double check if there are some constraints in the order. For example in my case I have to write the civic number in a specific order (different from what is customary here) and with a comma, otherwise it is not considered....