forgot to reply-to-all :)... you can probably get some addresses from the OS sample page: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/osmastermap/layers/addresslayer2/sample.html
data in gml and csv which has over 2K of addresses in each of their sample files. Most of the addresses are postal, some are non-postal (which offer more interesting geocoding possibilities) Of course, its all their copyright, but it's free (gratis) and would be a great resource for testing. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Brian Quinion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently doing some work trying to generate postcode location > data for the UK using address lists and address lookup using OSM data > to supplement NPE. So far it seems to work quite well with the > address lists that I have available to me (and coping quite well with > ambiguous road names) but I'm limited in my data sources and most of > the address data is fairly consistent in both format and quality. > > So, before I open the interface to the public, I'd like to test the > code with some lists provided by other people. > > Does anyone have, or know of, any address lists that I would be able > to use for this purpose? Obviously it needs to be license compatible > with OSM (so please no lists generated from royal mail postcode data!) > and ideally I'm after data sets containing at least: > > street address (house name / number optional) > town / city > postcode > > formatted as CSV or TSV. I'm specifically not after data containing > the names of individuals. > > Has anyone got any suggestions, or is willing to offer any data? Even > personal address books would be useful for testing... > > Cheers, > -- > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
