Hi, > I ran a little script against the data base of planning applications of > Islington Council and ended up with around 16,500 address. Around 6,500 of > them are relatively old and only have the first part of the post code. After > tidying the data little and removing dupes, this still leaves 10,000 > Islington addresses with a fully qualified post code, available in a plain > text file for your perusal. > So I was wondering if others have done the same for their area, and how to > best share this data. Has anybody experimented with address data bases yet? > Is there a preferred file format? Is there a drop-off point anywhere?
I've got a set of scripts that parse and try and match/import the data to a seperate postcode database. The plan was to make it available as a combination geo-coding service and bulk data upload. The command line scripts are mostly working and produce quite usable results most of the time but I had a large project turn up at work before I could quite finish it or get the public interface written. That's just coming to an end now so I was expecting to get back to it. Relevant thread here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01291.html My feeling was that this data was best kept in a seperate database because it might not be that accurate (multiple streets with same name) and in case of any copyright problems - I was going to make it available as a seperate download like NPE / Postboxes / etc. I'd love a copy of your data to try feeding into the code I've got - could you email it / let me have a copy? Might encourage me to get it finished :-) Cheers, -- Brian _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
