Author: twain
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.21am, Friday, 28th January 2011]

The problem is purely the 1918. If I remove it from the query then everything else works.

e.g.:

http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/search.php?q=43+blv+du+11+novembre%2C+Villeurbanne&viewbox=-189.85%2C82.25%2C189.85%2C-74.26

I have no idea what the 1918 refers to and I can't see any relevant data in OSM.

Author: ToB
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.23am, Friday, 28th January 2011]

Hmm, might be also just a data bug. In OSM the street misses the "1918". Still, searching for "43 blv. du 11 novembre, 69622 Villeurbanne" did not help either - only "blv. du 11 novembre, Villeurbanne" worked.

Thus, the "blv." -> "boulevard" worked, ignoring the house number worked, but ignoring the postal code if nothing could be found, does not seem to work.

"I have no idea what the 1918 refers to and I can't see any relevant data in OSM."

Seemingly the year (11th November 1918).

Author: datendelphin
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.21pm, Friday, 2nd March 2012]

The problem is, that the number pair 1918 69622 is recognized as a lat,lon pair.

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.59pm, Sunday, 4th March 2012]

Solved the problem with badly recognized lat/lon pair. (Will be deployed shortly.)

There is still the issue, though, that the unknown postcode is not ignored.

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.48pm, Thursday, 1st May 2014]

The lat/lon issue has been resolved for a while. For ignoring postcodes, see #2497.