Thanks for the mention! In regards to your comments about the StreetAdvisor service, if you do type in NYC into the StreetAdvisor search box, New York City appears third on the list. This is simply because NYACK, ALASKA, and NYACK, NEW YORK is first in the alphabet! So, yes our search engine does in fact work with NYC.

Second of all, our streets are broken up by postcode, as you mentioned. Going up the geographic chain, we did make the decision to aggregate certain zipcodes, as the data can sometimes be spread too thin. Ultimately we do have a very large number of cities, and of course, our major focus will always be the street.

Adam.

1) google maps: finds NYC.
2) msn maps (local.live): doesn’t find NYC.
3) yahoo! maps: finds NYC

So. Lets take a step back and think about this. Maybe they’re using local.live for their searching? Not sure if what their api is or if microsoft have an api for map searching.

@ReCrunch re: Broadway:
type this into their search box thingy: ‘broadway, ny, usa’ and you’ll see plenty of results. for Brooklyn, there’s 4 streets .. one per postcode. Looks like they handle long streets then.

Now if you want to go down to the city block level, then u might want to ask them to do that.

So … apparently SoHo and Harlem AREN’T the same thing then.

Q.E.D.