250 Howard St doesn't geocode

[graue]

We're unable to find 250 Howard St even though it works on OpenStreetMap.org's nominatim: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=250%20howard%20st%2C%20san%20francisco#map=19/37.79044/-122.39377

This is different from #134 because it doesn't show even if you include the city, state and zip code. Why not?

[graue]

The 250 Howard Street result on Nominatim is not a node, but a way:

     "properties" : {
        "category" : "place",
        "display_name" : "250, Howard Street, Transbay, San Francisco, CAL Fire Northern Region, California, 94105, United States",
        "importance" : -0.64,
        "osm_id" : 397148933,
        "osm_type" : "way",
        "place_id" : 315505950,
        "place_rank" : 30,
        "type" : "house"
     },

I don't know where it's getting the house number 250 from, since I don't see a 250 anywhere in the details for the "way". https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/397148933#map=17/37.78964/-122.39346

But this might not be the issue, since my home address also comes up as a "way" on OSM Nominatim, but works in BikeHopper.

[graue]

1580 Valencia Street has the same problem (geocodes on OSM website, but not in Photon)

[graue]

Still can't figure out where these address numbers (250 Howard or 1580 Valencia) are coming from, but my best hypothesis is that the address numbers are not stored in OSM itself, but are being added by Nominatim's TIGER support, and that Photon is somehow not using the Nominatim records that come from TIGER.

Meanwhile, we might want to explore using this: https://openaddresses.io/

[graue]

I sent an email to the Photon mailing list about this

[graue]

Could it be that adding TIGER support to our Nominatim instance would also fix Photon?

The public Nominatim instance can geocode this address, but not our Nominatim instance. Compare:

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=jsonv2&q=250+Howard+St,+San+Francisco,+California&limit=1 (good result)
https://bikehopper.org/api/v1/nominatim/search?format=jsonv2&q=250+Howard+St,+San+Francisco,+California&limit=1 (returns something irrelevant)

[Andykmcc]

I setup TIGER the first time around 2+ years ago. I know it did it then. I had the rebuild our nominatim after the construction power outage at your place a bit ago. I used the same configs to recreate the DB but I didnt confirm if it imported TIGER this time around. I expected it to but maybe it didn't.