Good work! I just tried searching based on house number and street name, and it didn't work if I didn't capitalise the first letters of the street name. Is this a feature or a bug?
Tim On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Tim François <[email protected]>wrote: > Good work! > > I just tried searching based on house number and street name, and it didn't > work if I didn't capitalise the first letters of the street name. Is this a > feature or a bug? > > Tim > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Matt Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> >> For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the >> Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5 >> queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data >> in the OSM database. You can find my site at [2]. >> >> It's features are: >> - Covers the whole of Britain (based on the Geofabrik >> great_britain.osm.pbf >> file from 15 March) >> - Can search by full or partial postcode >> - Can search for street and house number or just for street name >> - Largely based on the Karlsruhe Schema (including the associatedStreet >> relation for grouping houses together) >> - Has a tagging guide [3] to help document the tags the system uses >> - Fully open-source [4] >> - 'Error' reporting - these are currently only shown at the bottom of the >> page >> with the error. I will probably make a map out of this at some point. >> >> I currently measure about a quarter of a million 'address points' - >> that is objects with a postcode or with both a housenumber and a >> street (associates street or addr:street). This compares with the >> reported 28 million entries in the Royal Mail's PAF. I will provide a >> more detailed breakdown when I get a chance. >> >> Of course in its current state it's not a competitor for the PAF but >> I'm hoping that the "if you render it, they will map it" rule will >> apply here to encourage people to add postcodes and addresses. I guess >> a good postcode to look at is B72 [5] given the excellent work done at >> [6]. I've also been doing a lot in CV4 so that should be quite good >> too. >> >> Please take a look a the site and give me any feedback on anything you >> like or don't like. As I said this is only about a week's part-time >> work so it's unpolished in many places but I figure that RERO is a >> good idea here. >> >> There are a number of features I am still planning on implementing >> which are recoded at [7,8]. >> >> The first time you connect to the site it might take a while to load >> but after that it should be snappy enough. >> >> Regards, >> Matt Williams >> >> http://milliams.com >> >> [1] http://postcode.royalmail.com >> [2] http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/ >> [3] http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/tagging/ >> [4] http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder >> [5] >> http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/search/?postcode=B72 >> [6] http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2011/02/whats-in-postcode.html >> [7] >> http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder/postcode-analyser/blobs/master/TODO.rst >> [8] >> http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder/postcodefinder/blobs/master/TODO.rst >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > >
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