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 chose the wrong break point in address runs. We currently have 61272 addresses in the W Mids and 44164 have postcodes.
regards Brian On 30 August 2012 18:35, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > == Matt wrote == > > This does indeed seem like a very useful data source. Great find! > > However, I'm struggling to think of a nice way of visualising it to > make it useful. What I've got so far in my mind is: > - Take an entry from the list > - Take its postcode > - Search for the postcode (I've got a curated list of postcodes as > part of my PostCodeFinder [1]) > - Get the location of the nearest match (hopefully, we'll find at > least a CV4-type segment match) > - Search for roads within an x mile radius with a matching name > - Associate that entry with that road > > == End Message == > > Hi Matt, > I was actually thinking the other way round. That is: > > Pull in a list of building with addresses but no postcode in OSM (with their > way IDs) and see if any match up with the Land Registry addresses. This way > we can add postcode to buildings rather than just to the roads. > > Not sure if this is any easier/harder to do. > > Regards, > Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > talk...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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