Matt Williams [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: >Sent: 16 March 2011 7:51 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data > >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.
Works a treat and it's great to see all my hard work with addressing for the B72 postcodes. Cheers Andy > >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=B >72 >[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 > > >________________________________ > >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1498/3511 - Release Date: 03/16/11 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
