[Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

[Ben Pollinger]

On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com> wrote:
> For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
> Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
> queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data
> in the OSM database. You can find my site at [2].

Thanks for doing this, a very useful development.

I tried a few UK streets I had tagged with postcodes and it didn't
work, but I guess that is because they use
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Postal_code

Could this tag be supported too? It seems quite widely used
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/?key=postal_code

TagInfo says 48 306 values altogether for postal_code, versus 60 941
for addr:postcode.

cheers,
Ben