Why do route planners take the name of a building into account rather than its entrance when creating a walking route?

Open Source Routing Engine
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Hello,

When I request a pedestrian route from a bus stop to the Estia Berria building, why does GraphHopper give a route that does not take the building entrance, even though it is mapped in OSM?

Screenshot 2025-09-03 at 14-39-54 GraphHopper Maps Route Planner
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Obviously, when the arrival point is further north of the building, the pedestrian route is correct.

Screenshot 2025-09-03 at 14-40-18 GraphHopper Maps Route Planner
Screenshot 2025-09-03 at 14-40-18 GraphHopper Maps Route Planner1920×878 132 KB

The problem is that the name of the building is indicated south of the shape.

Thank you in advance for your help, and sorry if this question has already been asked. My English isn’t very good.

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The problem is that geocoders like photon (which we use for autocomplete) do not have this information in the database. But from a recent discussions with the dev from photon this will be included at some point in the future. And once it is there we can use it in GraphHopper Maps (if it is available in the data) and forward it to the routing engine.

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Thanks for your reply. Glad to hear that an improvement is planned. All we can do now is wait patiently.

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The next Nominatim release will add support for entrances:

As photon is importing its data from Nominatim, they’ll add support sooner or later

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