Extended addresses prevent matches for contact map location

[ainola]

Thanks for maintaining this!

Many of my contacts have apartment numbers or some other reason to use the "extended address" field. Once these contacts have this field set, however, their icon does not show up on the map. Removing the extended address allows them to show up.

For example:

150 West 95th Street / Apt 1 / New York / NY / 10025 ^This does not show up

150 West 95th Street / New York / NY / 10025 ^This does show up

Would it make sense to just not pass in the extended address for showing contact locations, or would that break something else? I see that a recent earlier comment mentions putting the extended address in the front; would that fix this issue as well or is that separate?

[tacruc]

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html?q=Copper+Beech+House+Heathside+Crescent%2C+Woking%2C+GU22+7BB%2C+United+Kingdom

You can test there which order provides the best results.

[Knyffen]

Most of the contacts in my address book live in apartments (all except 3 people), meaning that they encounter this problem, basically making this feature useless.

While there are open issues in the Open Street Map Github repository, they are very old an not much progress seems to be made: [https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/145](Allowing imperfect matches); [https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/587 ](Supporting apartment units).

I don't see it as a feasible solution for users to delete the information that OSM doesn't support, so I suggest adding an option to exclude the extended address field, making it possible to store unsupported information.