On 23/01/2008, Robert (Jamie) Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > > | I looked at it when David first implemented it, but I decided it > | wasn't reliable enough to go on the main site I think. > > I think it would be better if the site said "I'm not sure about this, > but the postcode /might/ be this street" and make a complete guess even > if that is completely wrong, rather than return no result. If the end > user could be asked "Is this the right location Yes / No?" and we > collect that information, that would be even better. If 2 or 3 people > say yes to a postcode, we could add it to the database. If someone says > no, we could log it as somewhere that needs to be found and surveyed.
I'm sure when I looked before there was some more fundamental problem than that with it - it was doing something odd when it couldn't find a match I think. I tried it again last night though, and it seems to be OK now, so I have added it to the list of sources we search when given a UK postcode. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
