Curious behavior of Pelias with house number suffixes in answer

[dawidl11]

Hi there,

I have a question about the general functionality of Pelias with house number suffixes.
I recently noticed that in Pelias the house number suffixes are not really respected in the answers and addresses with the same house number but different house number suffix are rated the same in the answers.

Here is an example:

What do I use?
A new Pelias snapshot with the latest data (OSM, WOF, GN and OA).

My request:
Unstructured search for the following address: „Bedburg-Hau Hebbenshof 83“ (/v1/search?text=Bedburg-Hau Hebbenshof 83&debug=1)

Result:
My expectations: "Hebbenshof 83, Bedburg-Hau, Germany" as the top result.
Reality: "Hebbenshof 83a, Bedburg-Hau, Germany" as the top result.

This behavior affects not only this example, but also many others. So, I could notice that Pelias does not interpret the house number suffixes correctly (this also affects the structured search).

My question:
What is the cause of this problem with the house number suffixes and will it be fixed in the future?

Many thanks in advance for the answers!

[dawidl11]

The same happens when I search for the following address, for example: "Tiroler Str. 14B, 22049 Hamburg, Germany".
The order of the answers looks rather random:

Have you also noticed this problem?

[dawidl11]

Hi @missinglink ,
can you confirm this behavior, or is there some other logic that allows differentiation by house number suffix in the request?

[slvlirnoff]

I can confirm seeing the same behavior in some cases. Let me know if you see where it comes from.

[orangejulius]

This should be fixed by #1683. For a long time, the way Pelias indexed housenumbers stripped out most non-numeric characters, and so the order results came back in was indeed random if the only difference in housenumbers was a letter.