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Contacts with extended addresses (apartment numbers, suite numbers, etc.) were not showing up on the map due to geocoding failures. The issue was in the address processing logic within AddressService::lookupAddressExternal().

Problem

The vCard ADR format uses semicolon-separated fields:

post-office-box;extended-address;street-address;locality;region;postal-code;country-name

For example:

;Apt 1;150 West 95th Street;New York;NY;10025;

The existing code only removed the post office box (field 0) but kept the extended address (field 1), resulting in geocoding queries like:

"Apt 1, 150 West 95th Street, New York, NY, 10025"

These queries often fail with geocoding services like Nominatim because apartment numbers make the address too specific or ambiguous.

Solution

Enhanced the address processing to remove both the post office box (field 0) AND the extended address (field 1) from geocoding queries:

// Before
array_shift($splitted_adr); // Remove post office box only

// After  
array_shift($splitted_adr); // Remove post office box (field 0)
if (count($splitted_adr) > 1 && trim($splitted_adr[0]) !== '') {
    array_shift($splitted_adr); // Remove extended address (field 1)
}

Now the same address produces a clean geocoding query:

"150 West 95th Street, New York, NY, 10025"

Impact

  • Contacts with apartment numbers, suite numbers, etc. now appear on the map
  • The original contact data is preserved - only the geocoding query is cleaned
  • Backward compatible with addresses that don't have extended address fields
  • Improves geocoding success rate for residential addresses

Fixes #712.

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Copilot AI commented Sep 4, 2025

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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits September 4, 2025 10:47
Co-authored-by: tacruc <402891+tacruc@users.noreply.github.com>
- Remove extended address field from geocoding queries to improve accuracy
- Contacts with apartment numbers, suites, etc. now show on map properly
- Added comprehensive tests to validate address parsing logic
- Preserves original address data while fixing geocoding queries

Co-authored-by: tacruc <402891+tacruc@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Extended addresses prevent matches for contact map location Fix extended addresses preventing contact map location matches Sep 4, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from tacruc September 4, 2025 10:54
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tacruc commented Sep 8, 2025

Does it work on non US Based addresses too.

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