House number parameter in cloudmade doesn't work

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I've problem with the house Parameter of the cloudmade geocoding API. i.e. I'am looking for house number 10 in the German City Gießen:

http://geocoding.cloudmade.com/8ee2a50541944fb9bcedded5165f09d9/geocoding/v2/find.html?query=zipcode:35390;city:giessen;house:10;street:bahnhofstrasse;country:Germany&return_geometry=true&results=1

cloudmade finds the correct street, but number 10 is not in the middle of the street. I've the same problem with all streets.

The API documentation sais I am right: http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/geocoding-http-api#Structured-search

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '13 at 11:13

They seem to ignore the house key and just return the same result as if it hasn't been provided. But searching on http://maps.cloudmade.com/ returns the same vague result. While the data you are searching for is in OSM's data base it might not be in CloudMade's data base for whatever reason. Therefore I guess this is a problem with CloudMade's geocoding database and not a problem of their API.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '13 at 10:05

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Sometimes there are no house number data in our data set, so we return only street. Also in couple of months we'll launch new geocoding with more detailed data.

answered May 28 '13 at 10:05

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In that case (even in all other tests) there was a house number included. Maybe I've made a mistake. Is my URL syntax correct? – Thomas1703 May 29 '13 at 08:56
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Your syntax is correct. And problem is in our data. We know about this, and we'll fix this ASAP – Support CloudMade Jun 18 '13 at 11:50
@Cloudmade is there a date for that? – Roman Pickl Jan 18 '14 at 10:04

House number parameter in cloudmade doesn't work

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