Match_type with tolerance: abbreviations , rivers, ... in addresses

opengeocoder
1

Dear ors-community,

I am trying to geocode the following address Gutenbergstr. 3, Hatzfeld (Eder)
The first entry in the JSON response has he following properties:

{
        "label": "Gutenbergstraße 3, Hatzfeld, HE, Germany",
        "layer": "address",
        "localadmin": "Hatzfeld (Eder)",
        "localadmin_gid": "whosonfirst:localadmin:1377684985",
        "locality": "Hatzfeld",
        "locality_gid": "whosonfirst:locality:101810103",
        "macrocounty": "Kassel Government Region",
        "macrocounty_gid": "whosonfirst:macrocounty:404227551",
        "match_type": "fallback",
}

I wonder why the match_type is not stated as being exact

Any on preprocessing of addresses would be welcome.

Rolf

2

Hey,

we are using Pelias as a geocoder.
Have a look at their documentation on addresses to check where the match_type comes from.

Best regards