Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-01 Thread Kevin Peat
On 31 October 2012 18:14, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Making this sort of distinction (what can have a postcode) is incredibly difficult - for instance NCP carparks do have a postcode. Shame about that, but if someone does a full postcode search and there are OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-01 Thread Andy Robinson
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data On another track it would be good if ITOworld could add to their buildings section a postcode map showing red = no postcode, yellow=first section only e.g B27, and green= complete postcode e.g B27 7XP. This would help in identifying where

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-11-01 Thread Lester Caine
Kevin Peat wrote: Making this sort of distinction (what can have a postcode) is incredibly difficult - for instance NCP carparks do have a postcode. Shame about that, but if someone does a full postcode search and there are OSM objects tagged with that exact postcode then wouldn't it be better

[Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Andy Robinson
We are back on for postcode interpretation and addition to buildings again. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 30 October 2012 19:25 To: Talk GB Subject: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data The UK Office for National

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
Can we get this data into Nominatim? Steve On 31/10/2012 11:07, Andy Robinson wrote: We are back on for postcode interpretation and addition to buildings again. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 30 October 2012 19:25 To: Talk GB

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? I believe it is in Nominatim 2 yes. Tom -- Tom Hughes

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Steve Doerr
On 31/10/2012 11:54, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data? Is that in there? I believe it is in

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Hughes
On 31/10/12 11:58, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:54, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data?

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: Is that different to what's used on www.openstreetmap.org for the Search box? That's where I want to see accurate postcode searching. The search box on www.osm.org uses nominatim.osm.org which as far as I know is running Nominatim 2 and includes Codepoint Open as a data

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Quinion
On 31 October 2012 12:25, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:58, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:54, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote: On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Kev js1982
Does this set include BT (northern Ireland) , postcodes like nspd open did? If so that is one way it's better than code point open On Oct 31, 2012 11:45 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Hill
On 31/10/12 13:58, Kev js1982 wrote: Does this set include BT (northern Ireland) , postcodes like nspd open did? If so that is one way it's better than code point open I have just finished processing the BT codes, so Northern Irish post codes are now available too. I haven't been able to

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Kevin Peat
On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I think this is quite a confusing approach. Post code searches often end up returning the wrong street that is also near the centroid, houses that don't belong to that post code that happen to be nearby, and also weird objects like

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Quinion
On 31 October 2012 16:59, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I think this is quite a confusing approach. Post code searches often end up returning the wrong street that is also near the centroid, houses that don't belong to that

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Chance
On Oct 31, 2012 6:14 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: On 31 October 2012 16:59, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote: I think this is quite a confusing approach. Post code searches often end up returning the

[Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Richard Bullock
On 31/10/12 13:58, Kev js1982 wrote: Does this set include BT (northern Ireland) , postcodes like nspd open did? If so that is one way it's better than code point open I have just finished processing the BT codes, so Northern Irish post codes are now available too. I haven't been able to

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Hill
On 31/10/12 18:37, Richard Bullock wrote: On 31/10/12 13:58, Kev js1982 wrote: Does this set include BT (northern Ireland) , postcodes like nspd open did? If so that is one way it's better than code point open I have just finished processing the BT codes, so Northern Irish post codes are

Re: [Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Prangle
On another track it would be good if ITOworld could add to their buildings section a postcode map showing red = no postcode, yellow=first section only e.g B27, and green= complete postcode e.g B27 7XP. This would help in identifying where to add postcodes Regards Brian On 31 October 2012 18:55,