Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.13pm, Sunday, 25th May 2014]

There is a known issue where postcodes that are tagged on buildings and pois are not updated in the search index. They are only shown in the displayed address.

Author: tbsprs
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.13pm, Monday, 26th May 2014]

@lonvia Can you please link the known issue here?

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.04pm, Monday, 26th May 2014]

There is no specific issue to link to. The overall issue is that updates of post codes are currently not supported. It's one of the three big TODOs for Nominatim development.

Author: tbsprs
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.01pm, Wednesday, 4th June 2014]

Nominatim does also not return a search result for the following addresses:

• Nannenbach 9 Leutkirch ... [http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/286078668 OSM object]
• Mthlower Hauptstrasse 5 Mrkisch Luch ... [http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/157926382 OSM object]

I added the specific addresses to houses in these villages. After a day they appeared on OSM.
Is this because the search index for buildings is not updated? What can I do about it?

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.25pm, Wednesday, 4th June 2014]

Please, don't reuse bug reports. If you find new problems open new bug reports. Also, link to the expected results, it makes it easier to follow.

This has nothing to do with the index update (which normally is only a few minutes behind the OSM database), they are both data problems.

Nannebach 9 is not a street address, it's a numbered house in a village, so use addr:place=Nannebach instead of addr:street.

The Mthlower Hauptstrasse goes through two villages. Nominatim can only pick one of them (which is a known problem). In this specific case, it looks very much like the street changes its name on the village boundary, so the OSM way has to be split there anyway, which fixes the issue here.

Author: tbsprs
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.08pm, Wednesday, 4th June 2014]

I started with a new ticket but I thought this would be the right way. Next time I will do so. Sorry.

I added addr:place to the house in Nannenbach. I hope this is correct.

Can you please describe how to split the street or point me to an online resource which describes it? I never did that (OSM editing noob).

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.31pm, Wednesday, 4th June 2014]

You should remove addr:street for the Nannenbach address.

For splitting: you can find a 'split line' function (the scissors) in ID when you click on a point on an existing way.

Author: tbsprs
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.28am, Friday, 6th June 2014]

@lonvia That looks very promising. I made the edits and now the search results appear. Thank you for your very helpful support! I guess the ticket can be closed now (once again) - I am not sure if this is my job?

Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.50pm, Wednesday, 1st March 2017]

This has been fixed a long while ago. See #2497 for details.