Apartment building entrance tagged correctly, but individual addresses not returning in search

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Hi, I have an apartment building named “Garden House”.

It has been converted into 7 apartments (addressed 1-7 The Gardens, 37a South Parade, Southsea) and 1 unit (addressed The Town House, 37a South Parade, Southsea) – with separate entrances for the 7 apartments and the 1 unit.

I am quite sure I’ve tagged the entrances, on the waypoint for the house, correctly. However, when I search the address of an individual apartment e.g. “3 The Gardens, Southsea” there are no results. This is the node I believe should be indexed as searchable for the address: Node: 12152036116 | OpenStreetMap.

Can anyone help me understand what might be wrong with the tagging, or whether this is an expected limitation of the search?

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Just searching “The Gardens, Southsea” gives results for both house and apartments: The Gardens, Southsea | OpenStreetMap

I see you only made changes yesterday, so they may take some time to actually register.

I’d probably give it a week or so?

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The tagging looks fine to me, but Nominatim, the search software that powers the OSM website, does not support addr:flats yet, that is why it doesn’t work unless you leave off the 3 in the search. (The issue is already reported, it’s a very long standing feature request.)

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Thanks Fizzie41 but I was specifically concerned with why the true address of a flat, when correctly tagged, should not appear. It does seem to be a limitation of the search engine, sadly.

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