House number parameter in cloudmade doesn't work

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.