Felix,
Ups, sorry I was not clear. I meant that we should include into the global address index also streets without "osm addresses". So that any street present in the map, can be searched for by the "address search" and not only proper addresses with housenumbers (because we don't have many of them yet). This would have the added advantage of being able to search for hiking ways of which you know the name (but which certainly have no houses, so no address).
OK, understood. Sure, you want the road name without the city name suffixed as you get with the RNPs.
So I would like to have the functionality of "road-name-pois" inside the address search (with housenumber=0, because the Vista HCx will only let you enter a streetname in the search, after having typed in a housenumber; I do believe that other GPS are similar in that regard).
Don't know how adding housenumber=0 to a road address will change things. Surely, the hcx will still be asking for a number? As you probably know, you don't even have to enter a number, just OK.
Whether the "road-name-pois" is then dropped or not, does not matter to me.
Indeed, the RNP code can slumber. Mark