From discussion in German forum (which I am unfortunately not able to fully follow) … there was/is an issue related to address search. MapFactor Navigator search is based on administrative levels, so standard search is
- select country
- select city/town/village (narrow search by typing the begin of the word)
- select street
This is an ideal pass. In many cases there is step 2b, if there is more than one town of the same name, or 3b if there are more streets of the same name in the city.
The question is what OSM admin_level should be used in step 2. This is probably country specific - for example
in Czech Republic for step 2 are used admin_level = 7 (district), 8 (city) and 10 (part of city)
[it is rather exception, because the data are probably imported and make sense for the whole country].
What admin_level search would you expect in Germany?
There are many countries (Canada for example) where basically NO admin areas are available :(. For this reason we also added search in “nearby city” (defined by node ‘place’). This may add to confusion in countries, where the administrative hierarchy is well defined. Should that be removed? Note, that this “near rule” does not apply for POIs which are completely based on admin areas only (in current version 10.1.20, it may change in the future).