Wrong street name for house number in AssociatedStreet relation

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Reporter: g.idema[at]zonnet.nl
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 3.57pm, Wednesday, 10th October 2012]

When I search for "Reinier Roeststraat 6, Leusden" I get 2 results.
The first result is the one I'm looking for. The second is a different house with house number 6 in the nearby "Kees van Burgstedenstraat" street.
Strangely enough the second result is being reported as "Reinier Roeststraat 6" in stead of "Kees van Burgstedenstraat 6", even though it is in an associatedstreet relation with name "Kees van Burgstedenstraat".

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.48pm, Wednesday, 10th October 2012]

This is an issue with the update process that did not update the house's address after you added the missing street member to the associatedStreet relation. The address will get corrected the next time the house is reindexed (e.g. because it is changed).

A proper mechanism for propagating associatedStreet updates would be nice but I'm not sure it can be done as long as the associatedStreet relations are only saved in the slim tables.

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Author: g.idema[at]zonnet.nl
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.58pm, Wednesday, 10th October 2012]

Thanks for quick response. I'll change the house and see what happens to the search results.

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.25pm, Wednesday, 10th October 2012]

Working around Nominatim bugs this way might get you into trouble with your fellow mappers. I've invalidated the area now. Street should be correct for the houses around Reinier Roeststraat.

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Author: g.idema[at]zonnet.nl
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.00pm, Wednesday, 10th October 2012]

Replying to [comment:3 lonvia]:

Working around Nominatim bugs this way might get you into trouble with your fellow mappers. I've invalidated the area now. Street should be correct for the houses around Reinier Roeststraat.

Thanks for invalidating this area. The street is correct now.
Is there a way to prevent this in the future? Do you recommend adding addr:street tags as well? Were working on a procedure for semi-automatically importing (mostly updating) buildings using data from a government provided database. We're using .osm files in Josm to accomplish this.

Gertjan Idema

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.13am, Thursday, 11th October 2012]

Nominatim would be perfectly happy if you added only addr:street tags and got rid of the associatedStreet relations. The relations mostly don't carry any additional information and are a bit of a pain to handle. addr:street is much better supported.

I don't recommend adding both, chances are good that your data will sooner or later be inconsistent.

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.26pm, Saturday, 16th March 2013]

see also #4810