-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: | 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.
This probably isn't namefinders fault, but I just tried searching for OX1 3HZ on the OSM home page, and I was taken to the wrong place, several miles north of Oxford. It seems npemap.org.uk gives the same result. Where is it getting this from? When I tried it on http://www.frankieandshadow.com/osm/, it tells me that it cannot find Frewin Chambers, Frewin Court, Oxford (which is the correct place, and is "correctly" not found because it isn't on the map). I should be presented with the best guess location based on averaging the results of just the start of the postcode - OX1 3**, at a low-ish zoom level, and with a message that id can't find the exact place. Ideally something should cache the information that there is a place called Frewin Chambers, Frewin Court, Oxford in the OX1 region that needs to be found and added to the map. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHmf3hz+aYVHdncI0RAmWTAJ9P8c40YCBXLVqm6he8SgsqgK9hNACgtrrk hx+7QX0fYiswGASi7Yi0xKA= =+66j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
