On 17 March 2011 13:17, Ben Pollinger <benpollinger+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams <li...@milliams.com> wrote: >> 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]. > > Thanks for doing this, a very useful development. > > I tried a few UK streets I had tagged with postcodes and it didn't > work, but I guess that is because they use > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Postal_code > > Could this tag be supported too? It seems quite widely used > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/?key=postal_code > > TagInfo says 48 306 values altogether for postal_code, versus 60 941 > for addr:postcode.
It doesn't currently parse any postcode tag on highway=* roads since strictly it's not the roads themselves that have postcodes, but the houses themselves. I didn't want to encourage this too much I guess. It is however a shame that your data isn't showing up; maybe I'll reconsider my position. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
