Ed Avis [mailto:[email protected]] wrote >Sent: 21 January 2011 11:28 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode centroids > >Chris Hill <osm@...> writes: > >>The Open >>data that OS released last year included the Code Point Open dataset >>which has the location of postcode centroids. These can help with >>adding postcodes to addresses. > >>Please do not just add the centroid to the map. I don't see the value >>of that. > >I think the big question is whether adding them would help Nominatim >resolve postcode searches. It seems to have some postcode data already but >I don't know where it gets that from?
Nominatim works very nicely once you have the postcodes and house numbers in OSM. Just try my postcode B72 1JU in the OSM search box for an example. It doesn't currently do the house number and the postcode together in the same query though. Cheers Andy > >-- >Ed Avis <[email protected]> > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >________________________________ > >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3391 - Release Date: 01/19/11 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
