<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Good work!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_quote">
Tim</div></font></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Tim François <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timhafrancois@gmail.com">timhafrancois@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Good work!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">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?</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_quote">Tim</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Matt Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@milliams.com" target="_blank">lists@milliams.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings all,<br>
<br>
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the<br>
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5<br>
queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data<br>
in the OSM database. You can find my site at [2].<br>
<br>
It's features are:<br>
- Covers the whole of Britain (based on the Geofabrik great_britain.osm.pbf<br>
file from 15 March)<br>
- Can search by full or partial postcode<br>
- Can search for street and house number or just for street name<br>
- Largely based on the Karlsruhe Schema (including the associatedStreet<br>
relation for grouping houses together)<br>
- Has a tagging guide [3] to help document the tags the system uses<br>
- Fully open-source [4]<br>
- 'Error' reporting - these are currently only shown at the bottom of the page<br>
with the error. I will probably make a map out of this at some point.<br>
<br>
I currently measure about a quarter of a million 'address points' -<br>
that is objects with a postcode or with both a housenumber and a<br>
street (associates street or addr:street). This compares with the<br>
reported 28 million entries in the Royal Mail's PAF. I will provide a<br>
more detailed breakdown when I get a chance.<br>
<br>
Of course in its current state it's not a competitor for the PAF but<br>
I'm hoping that the "if you render it, they will map it" rule will<br>
apply here to encourage people to add postcodes and addresses. I guess<br>
a good postcode to look at is B72 [5] given the excellent work done at<br>
[6]. I've also been doing a lot in CV4 so that should be quite good<br>
too.<br>
<br>
Please take a look a the site and give me any feedback on anything you<br>
like or don't like. As I said this is only about a week's part-time<br>
work so it's unpolished in many places but I figure that RERO is a<br>
good idea here.<br>
<br>
There are a number of features I am still planning on implementing<br>
which are recoded at [7,8].<br>
<br>
The first time you connect to the site it might take a while to load<br>
but after that it should be snappy enough.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Matt Williams<br>
<br>
<a href="http://milliams.com" target="_blank">http://milliams.com</a><br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://postcode.royalmail.com" target="_blank">http://postcode.royalmail.com</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/" target="_blank">http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/tagging/" target="_blank">http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/tagging/</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder" target="_blank">http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/search/?postcode=B72" target="_blank">http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/search/?postcode=B72</a><br>
[6] <a href="http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2011/02/whats-in-postcode.html" target="_blank">http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2011/02/whats-in-postcode.html</a><br>
[7] <a href="http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder/postcode-analyser/blobs/master/TODO.rst" target="_blank">http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder/postcode-analyser/blobs/master/TODO.rst</a><br>
[8] <a href="http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder/postcodefinder/blobs/master/TODO.rst" target="_blank">http://gitorious.org/postcodefinder/postcodefinder/blobs/master/TODO.rst</a><br>
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