[OSM-dev] Namefinder - what to do

[Tom Hughes]

In message <47963E4C.6090906 at arjam.net>
          "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:

> Ironically, the namefinder's own postcode lookup system works really
> quite well (albeit slowly), but isn't available on the OSM home page.
> 
> Try entering a postcode here:
> http://www.frankieandshadow.com/osm/
> 
> It works by the really scary method of doing a Google search of a
> postcode, parsing the results for something that looks like an address,
> then searching for the address.
> 
> It does give false positives, though. So if you search for a postcode of
> a street that is not in the database, it will often find a street with a
> similar name somewhere else in the country.

I looked at it when David first implemented it, but I decided it
wasn't reliable enough to go on the main site I think.

Tom

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