comaps uses openstreetmap data. you can help improve that data, including by filling in missing addresses. check this to start: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses

Interpreting addresses is a hard problem. For example what Google does is absolutely amazing.

Unfortunately CoMaps doesn't seem to be able to reach anything even similar. I don't know if it's about lack of resources, or lack of expertise ... well it all comes back to money anyway.

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

When i put just "1219 SW Park Ave, Portland" it immediately finds the museum. Municipal code formats vary everywhere in the world and my best guess is that it gets confused by the extra numbers at the end. In general my experience with osm applications is that less verbosity is better for the search.

I’ve had the same issue and not being able to search and pull up a simple address is a big turn off

This is going to surprise you but I work in logistics software and can assert it's true

There's no correct way to parse an address, and no assumption that can generally be applied about it

You basically need some form of AI to parse an address with acceptable quality in an application designed for international audiences

If the search feature is for one province or area you might be able to get away with some hard coded format or heuristic but in the international space, even between countries that speak the same language, or within one country, there is no one technique for parsing an address

I think CoMaps only finds addresses that are within the coverage area of the downloaded maps. Quite annoying, but in my experience it works quite well within that area.

If you're putting in street numbers and only getting back streets, chances are that street number does not exist in openstreetmap yet and you'll need to add it

Bruh I don't even understand addresses

Its why I don't use it. When I can put an address in it and I can actually navigate to that address, I will switch.

It does work if you have the GPS coordinates by the way. But unfortunately I can't recommend it until that issue is resolved. I think the main issue is its source data. Yes I'm aware I can add addresses, but that doesn't help me with actually using the app.

Try Southwest Park Avenue, 1219 Or the App GeoShare

Try just "1219 sw park ave" or "1219 southwest park avenue"

City, state, zip, is rarely tagged (correctly) in OSM.