I hope this isn't a silly question, but: it seems like all the projects to free the UK postcode database (like npemap and freethepostcode) closed down five or more years ago when the OS release CodePoint Open. However, this data set is not suitable for use in OSM, according to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata
The end result is that I still can't type UK postcodes into Nominatim, the main OSM search engine, and depend on getting useful results back. Which makes it, TBH, bloody useless compared to Google Maps, as 95% of the address searches I do are by postcode. Example: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=LE11+1PN&polygon=1&viewbox= "No results" and http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=LE11%201PN#map=13/52.7747/-1.1692 Gives me "LE11 1##", which is not very close at all. To add insult to injury, it says "Results from NPEMap/FreeThePostcode", but it seems like either of those projects lets you add to their database any more! Nominatim doesn't seem to turn up postcodes even if they are added to objects in the OSM database as postcodes. Does this not bother anyone else? It is just me? If it bothers lots of people, why did those projects shut and why does no-one appear to be doing anything about it? I kind of feel I must have missed something big as this has seemed like an enormous glaring issue for years, but no-one else seems bothered... Gerv _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
