Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists <ajrlists@...> writes: >>>The Open >>>data that OS released last year included the Code Point Open dataset >>>which has the location of postcode centroids.
>>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. I got confused. The OSM website will do postcode matches using the NPEMap / Free The Postcode data when Nominatim doesn't return a result. These search results come up like 'EX13 7##' and must be based on a postcode centroid. If the centroids were mapped within OSM itself, then Nominatim could do this search. This might be slightly cleaner, but it's more of a technical decision than anything else, so it's for Brian Q. and the search form folk to decide. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
