One issue with company address is that it's very often nothing more than the address of the accountant. That's certainly the case for us. That's not necessarily an undesirable piece of data, mind you, it just might not be what you were expecting.
Search filtering/sorting isn't out of the question, and I'm now showing more information than just name in the search results. I'll put filtering and sorting on the todo list. On 17 Apr 2010, at 08:29, Matt Ford wrote: > You could probably quite easily mashup with companiesopen.org to get the date > of incorporation and the company address from the XML feed. I am particularly > interested in the address because that can sometimes help in showing you > links between organisations based in the same location/building. > > At the moment it's also very difficult to actually find someone using the > tool (though I do understand it's in its infancy) as most names are > relatively common when you look across the whole country and it's hard to > tell if you have found the person you're looking for or not. I presume in the > final version there will be options to filter searches by age of person and > location (using postcode)? > > On 16 April 2010 23:44, Matt Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Company number is in the URL and should be on the page too. I'm afraid that > the incorporation date was on another dataset than the one we bought, but i > think it's part of the set that's free on webcheck. On the other hand the > oldest appointment date for a company may be from the incorporation document > (and will say so if it is) so you could make a fair guess. > > On 16 Apr 2010, at 23:18, Julian Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Do you have anything more about the companies, apart from just the > > name, like the company number, whether it's classified as a small > > business, and when it was incorporated? > > > > Julian. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
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