Nice start Matt :-) Cheers Andy
> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Williams [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 September 2012 16:43 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source > > On 31 August 2012 15:10, Matt Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30 August 2012 18:35, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Matt, > >> I was actually thinking the other way round. That is: > >> > >> Pull in a list of building with addresses but no postcode in OSM > >> (with their way IDs) and see if any match up with the Land Registry > >> addresses. This way we can add postcode to buildings rather than just to > the roads. > >> > >> > >> Not sure if this is any easier/harder to do. > > > > It's probably easier for me to do. However, we run the risk or > > ambiguity where the Land Registry data says "10 Main Street" and we > > find 10 of those in the OSM data. Maybe this wont be a problem and > > even if we do find ambiguity, we can simply list all the possible > > matches. > > > > I'll see what I can come up with. > > Ok, first iteration of something with this is up at > http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/landregistry/ > > It's extremely basic and isn't providing much more than you can get with a bit > of grep magic. You enter a postcode and it does a substring match to get all > the matching entries. I have added all 349,849 (up to and including the July > data) entries. > > The next step will be to take start matching up that list with the address > provided through http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/ > and show a map of matches. > > -- > Matt Williams > http://milliams.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
