OpenstreetMap address found on offical website not found in latest version of OSM dump

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We searched for the following Address: 2932 Cherryland Road, Baltimore, MD 21225 on the official OpenStreetMap website . Results attached here:[2932 Cherryland Road | OpenStreetMap] We found that the above address is present on the openstreet map official website as shown in the link above.

In our use case we are downloading all latest OSM data provided in PBF format and then dumping that data in our database. The above address is present in Maryland state and thus we downloaded the latest OSM dump for Maryland from : [https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/maryland-latest.osm.pbf] and checked if the above address is present in the downloaded OSM file. But unfortunately we could not find any such address in the dump.

When we exported the node id from openstreet website for above address and searched it in OSM dump we downloaded we found those to be empty nodes and do not contain address relevant tags. Can you suggest why this difference or are we missing something?

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The explanation for this is simple.

Nominatim (the standard geocoder on the website) data for the US includes address data from the TIGER dataset. This is not included in OSM proper, and as you can see from your search result, you don’t get the actual address back.

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I don’t for one moment even pretend to understand the technicalities, but it would also appear there is no 2932 Cherryland Road?

The highest street number would appear to be 2866 Node: 9690773630 | OpenStreetMap, while the school across the road is 801 Bridgeview Road.

2932 “could” be the apparent parks OpenStreetMap, but they’re mapped as 800 & 801 Seagull Avenue?