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 bette

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

2012-11-01 Thread Andy Robinson
lk GB 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

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

2012-11-01 Thread Kevin Peat
On 31 October 2012 18:14, Brian Quinion 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 p

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,

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 now

[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 cros

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

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Chance
On Oct 31, 2012 6:14 PM, "Brian Quinion" wrote: > > On 31 October 2012 16:59, Kevin Peat wrote: >> >> On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance 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, house

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

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Quinion
On 31 October 2012 16:59, Kevin Peat wrote: > On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance 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

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

2012-10-31 Thread Kevin Peat
On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance 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 trees and car

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 cr

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

2012-10-31 Thread Tom Chance
On 31 October 2012 13:04, Brian Quinion wrote: > It does a search using the royal mail postcode but then returns only data > found in OSM. > Ahh, thanks. 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

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" wrote: > On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote: > > Can we get this data into Nominatim? >> > > Why? What would it give us over

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

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Quinion
On 31 October 2012 12:25, SomeoneElse 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 wr

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 sourc

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

2012-10-31 Thread SomeoneElse
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: Can we get this data into Nominatim? Why? What would it give us over the CodePo

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? Is

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 No

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 (t...

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 Talk-GB@openstreetmap

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 http://li

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 Subjec

[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 S