Hi, I've now compiled a Benelux map succesfully with the housenumber search. In the errorlog (mkgmap-r2494) it reported housenumbers with fixme and streetnames (dont know if this is fixed already) but in general it can find most addresses.
I think there is nothing to fix? If the addr:housenumber tag contains the value "fixme" it's a tagging error. Anyhow I will lower the log level of the error message.
I even merged the whole database of ALL streets+housenumbers for the Netherlands into the OSM extract (so called BAG data from the Dutch Kadaster) and this went fine :-)
One issue is that Mapsource displays street,housenumber,province,country but not street,housenumber,place,country and this is only for some addresses in this street. Other addresses in the same street can find also the placename.
Do you use preprocessed bounds? Which mkgmap parameters do you use?
This BAG dataset that I merged with OSM contained the nodes with addr:housenumber and addr:street tags, but maybe the search would improve if I added addr:city as well or is it an index problem?
addr:city is not evaluated for housenumber processing. WanMil
<tag k="addr:housenumber" v="055892500"/>
Thanks, that's in my part of the code. It is as you say probably not a real number and I don't know if numbers that big can be represented in the format or not. If they can't then I will just ignore it.
..Steve