cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22847797
Osmand doesn’t appear to be able to locate street addresses. Like if I input something like “123 4th Street” all it can do is offer some cross streets, which may be miles away from my intended location.
Is there a way to augment it’s data so street addresses work? Maybe there’s a service I can add?
Similarly, it doesn’t know the names of many businesses.
You can check on openstreetmap.org whether the data is on OSM at all. If it isn’t, you can add it yourself, there are many ways to edit OSM and tutorials where you can learn it. The specific documentation for address keys is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:*
In general, OsmAnd definitely does support searching for house numbers if they are correctly mapped in OSM. I’ve done it many times and tried it out just now too. So if it can’t find any house numbers in the area you’re looking at, that probably means they are just not on the map yet. OSM is and will always be a work in progress.
That means the area where you’re looking hasn’t been mapped. You or somebody needs to add the street address and businesses.
You can add POIs with Osmand and lots of other software. Everydoor is straightforward for adding businesses.
I wish it was more up front about not having address search capability. Its a waste of time for someone expecting to replace google maps, taking the time to install the app and then it turns out they can’t find anything.
I prefer Organic Maps these days but I must admit that Magic Earth searches addresses quite well
Here is a street in my town that has house numbers
But one street over, no house numbers!
Nice!
Opportunity for you to map it ☺️
I’ll get to it. I can take that street when I walk home from work and do it. I already did 90% of my own street and it is the longest one in my town.
