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Nominatim geocoder - returns different results for postalcode before vs after city name

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reading and reproducing the example in the linked Nominatim issue 2167. Then compare the provider's behavior with Nominatim's response for postalcode-before-city versus city-before-postalcode queries. Done means establishing whether the defect belongs in this PHP provider and documenting or implementing a confirmed resolution.

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Description

provider

Maybe this is not an issue of geocode-php/nominatim-provider , it maybe an issue of Nominatim itself:

https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/2167

But Nominativ has closed the issue instead of solving the problem.

Please check the problem and example on https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/2167 and help to solve this problem.

Thank you.

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