Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-09-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
[resending as my original reply was inadvertently off-list] On 31 August 2012 12:12, Andrew Mackenzie a.macken...@bethere.co.uk wrote: there is another approach, which is to download the data for all companies in the UK from Companies House. There may be other (open-) databases which include

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Prangle
I'd agree with Rob's logic and extend it to show one of three results: postcode missing or postcode incomplete or postcode incorrect. We have loads of addresses with only the first group in place e.g B27 and I'm sure when we were using codepoint( before we knew it was dodgy in licensing terms) we

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Thread Andy Robinson
Postcodes - Potential data source I'd agree with Rob's logic and extend it to show one of three results: postcode missing or postcode incomplete or postcode incorrect. We have loads of addresses with only the first group in place e.g B27 and I'm sure when we were using codepoint( before we knew

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Thread Big Fat Frog
-westmidlands *Subject:* Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source I'd agree with Rob's logic and extend it to show one of three results: postcode missing or postcode incomplete or postcode incorrect. We have loads of addresses with only the first group in place e.g B27

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Thread Andy Robinson
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 31 August 2012 08:27 *To:* Rob Nickerson; talk-gb-westmidlands *Subject:* Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source I'd agree with Rob's logic and extend it to show one of three results: postcode missing or postcode incomplete

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Thread Andrew Mackenzie
Message- From: Big Fat Frog [mailto:bigfatfro...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 August 2012 10:11 To: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source Have I missed something? What datasource are you referring to here

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-31 Thread Ed Loach
Mackenzie [mailto:a.macken...@bethere.co.uk] Sent: 31 August 2012 11:13 To: Andy Robinson Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source Hi all there is another approach, which is to download the data for all

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-30 Thread Matt Williams
On 27 August 2012 23:18, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Please correct me if I am wrong, but to the best of my understanding we are still struggling to find a good source of postcode data under an open licence. From what I understand the CodePoint data set is

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Chance
On 28 August 2012 00:44, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: What I have in my mind is to grab each months data release from land registry (thus building up a good database of address + postcode), and then have some tool to visualise where we can match OSM addresses (without

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-08-27 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi Rob, Postcodes are a bit more complicated. Postcodes are a series of points, not a single point, as based on CodePoint data. I would not like to see a raw import of the CodePoint Open data as it is just the centroids of the postcodes, instead the postcodes need to be attached to specific