<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp5b2ceac6yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Lester,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sorry if my post was a bit of a rant. I have a history of having to fight to get IT systems that do the hard work and preventing them demanding that people do the translation into "machine-speak".</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks for the explanation.</div><div><br></div><div class="ydp5b2ceac6signature"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Peter</div></div></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 9 April 2020, 10:29:05 BST, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On 03/04/2020 10:15, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote:<br clear="none">> So, will I have to quote a 20-digit alpha-numeric code, if I want to <br clear="none">> order something from Amazon? ..or get my grandchildren to send me a <br clear="none">> birthday card?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> (I do not know what these UPRN's look like, but I bet they are not as <br clear="none">> easy to remember as "Rose Cottage, 3 Church Lane, XX3 4ZZ")<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> We have to think about human readability and memorability, versus <br clear="none">> machine computability and we need to be careful not to make the humans <br clear="none">> do all the work, just to make it easier for the machines. Making me use <br clear="none">> a PostCode is already making me do some of the work, but at least they <br clear="none">> are only 6 or 7 characters.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The NLPG is intended to provide a single database of all the land in the <br clear="none">United Kingdom. Councils have been building this for many years now, and <br clear="none">it allows parcels of land that the Post Office do not have any reference <br clear="none">to in their Postal Address File to be uniquely identified. Looking up <br clear="none">data using Postcodes can be fun but often due to people having the wrong <br clear="none">postcode anyway. We can identify the vast majority of residential and <br clear="none">business locations using 'building Number'/'Postcode', but additional <br clear="none">data is useful to identify that this short form is actually correct, but <br clear="none">your council tax or business rates will be charged against the UPRN <br clear="none">reference on the council systems. It is not intended to be anything <br clear="none">other than a 'machine readable' unique refference ...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Lester Caine - G8HFL<br clear="none">-----------------------------<br clear="none">Contact - <a shape="rect" href="https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact</a><br clear="none">L.S.Caine Electronic Services - <a shape="rect" href="https://lsces.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://lsces.uk</a><br clear="none">Model Engineers Digital Workshop - <a shape="rect" href="https://medw.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://medw.uk</a><br clear="none">Rainbow Digital Media - <a shape="rect" href="https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk</a><div class="ydpd816e400yqt8113982135" id="ydpd816e400yqtfd57381"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Talk-GB mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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