incomplete reverse geocoding results

[zheffie]

It seems that the result of photon's reverse geocoding is incomplete compared to nominatim. Consider below:

http://photon.komoot.de/reverse?lat=51.2034950256348&lon=4.5686016082763

{"features":[{"properties":{"osm_key":"highway","extent":[4.5702038,51.2030266,4.570565,51.2029519],"state":"Flanders","osm_id":4818922,"osm_type":"W","postcode":"2520","osm_value":"motorway","city":"Ranst","country":"Belgium"},"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[4.5702038,51.2030266]}}],"type":"FeatureCollection"}

http://nominatim.openstreetmaps.org/reverse.php?lat=51.2034950256348&lon=4.5686016082763

{"place_id":"118343347","licence":"Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/copyright","osm_type":"way","osm_id":"273828044","lat":"51.2042868","lon":"4.5654602","display_name":"E34;E313, Ranst, Antwerp, Flanders, 2520, Belgium","address":{"road":"E34;E313","city_district":"Ranst","town":"Ranst","county":"Antwerp","state":"Flanders","postcode":"2520","country":"Belgium","country_code":"be"}}

Note that the photon result does not include the road name "E313/E34".

Why is this, and can it be fixed?

[christophlingg]

in this case photon does not consider tags like destination:int_ref or nat_ref

[karussell]

I think if no 'name' tag is present the 'ref' or 'int_ref' should be used. E.g. also http://photon.komoot.de/reverse?lat=50.8948941&lon=12.9471627

[lonvia]

How would you expect the data to be imported? Should 'ref' become a field of its own and the frontend would do the replacement when no name is present or should be nominatim exporter put the ref into the name field when no name can be found? The first solution would just influence the output, the second one would also make the name searchable. The latter should be considered with care because refs can really mess up the search results (e.g. easily confused with house numbers).

[karussell]

Thanks @lonvia for this hint :) Then indeed the first option sounds better

[karussell]

Name seems to be absent also for buildings: http://photon.komoot.de/reverse?lon=-1.81602098644987&lat=52.5487429714954

[lonvia]

This building has no name. I would suggest to fallback to the housenumber (and street) when creating output.