Osmand doesn’t appear to be able to locate street addresses. Like if I input something like “123 4th Street” all it can do is offer some cross streets, which may be miles away from my intended location.
Is there a way to augment it’s data so street addresses work? Maybe there’s a service I can add?
Similarly, it doesn’t know the names of many businesses.
Two things I’ve recently discovered:
- The data simply isn’t there. One of the reasons you can’t find address is because nobody has entered them to OpenStreetMap.
- OsmAnd search isn’t good or intuitive. For the few places that do have addresses, you’ll have to search for them in a very specific format:
$CITY $STREET $NUMBER
If you want to contribute addresses you know to OpenStreetMap create an account here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Once you create an account, you’ll be able to use editors to update the map.
Editors include:
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/ (the edit button on the webpage, this editor is called iD)
- https://rapideditor.org/ (made by facebook… very similar to iD)
- https://streetcomplete.app/ (for your phone, easier to enter small bits of info)
- https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ (full fledged, industrial desktop editor)
After you update the map, you’ll have to wait somewhere between 1 hour to 1 month for updates to propagate to different apps. OsmAnd has a pro tier that gets hourly map updates… although… I’m not sure if address data is included in those map updates or just other things like buildings…
