Sarah Hoffmann

Having looked through a couple of examples of the tag, the current use seems to be mostly a repetition of the address (i.e. the city, suburb). Nominatim already has this...

That sums up the issues very well, @1ec5. One of the issues with combinations is that Nominatim should somehow know that the term must always appear with another. If we...

More polygon formats are certainly possible. An external contribution for this feature would be welcome.

The desired results doesn't show up because there are quite a few Mainstrasse 8 in the 'Landkreis Bamberg'. The initial search on `search_name` prioritizes these results. We probably need an...

@karlvr 1. Please do not add comments to existing issues that may or may not be related to your problem. Open a new [discussion](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/discussions). 2. There is no way to...

I'd like to see a general solution for this where secondary ordering via place type is automatically computed from the importance of objects we have from the wikipedia data. Needs...

The convention in OSM is to use the un-abbreviated form in the name tags. That is why contractions only work one way. I see that the Brits claim an exception...

Nope, it's not a bug, it's a feature. It was a conscious choice not to do expand shortened names anymore, given that the OSM community has now widely accepted and...

You have to give the whole street name to get to the exact match. 'проспект Независимости 100 Минск' finds the address. You've run into two combined issues here. First there...

There is no longer a processing stage, so this is not possible in this way. However, the indexing still might be moved a little bit ahead. The way-node index can...