On 17 March 2011 18:55, Matt Williams <li...@milliams.com> wrote: > On 17 March 2011 17:44, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM <sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: >> A few weeks ago I did pull out postcodes from all tagged objects & compared >> them with CodePoint, IIRC OSM had about 0.6% of them (around 7000 in >> addr:postcode format, and another 4000 in postal_code tags). These figures >> will have increased substantally since then (B72 was only 41% complete at >> the time). > > Yeah, it looks a lot better now. I count 70,608 houses with postcodes > in OSM. This will more than you measured because this is expanding out > interpolated address ways and buildings with more than one house > number.
And interestingly that 70,608 number was from an extract a few days old. The latest extract (about a day old now) pushes the number up to 74,942 so we're doing well :). Perhaps it would be interesting to keep track of this data. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
