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I've had the same frustration. I don't know too much about OSM so I might be completely off but I think it has something to do with address ranges being specified but individual addresses not being assigned shapes.

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I'm not an expert either, but my understanding is that it's actually the opposite. From what I've seen, geocoders can find an address great when there's an exact match whether it's a point or area/shape. But they struggle to extrapolate or interpolate to find a spot along a road. ("Range")

Agreed. I added all the house numbers in my neighborhood into OSM. Now OSM and apps using OSM will take me to my home address. Before it would only find my street and take me to the midpoint.

I've had the exact same experience with Ranges.

It’s a mismatch between OSM’s address format and the normal address format.

Osmand does basic string matching for search so it only finds exact matches. You search for 108 1st st Portland, OSM has 108 1st street Portland, Osmand finds nothing.

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