[Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

[Tom Chance]

On 17 March 2011 12:17, Ben Pollinger <benpollinger+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I've been switching any feature I find over to addr:postcode. Much easier.

Making developers work out these wrinkles so they have to support multiple
tags is one of a few good reasons for us to have a process to just update
the db and translate all postal_code keys to addr:postcode (if it were
accepted by a process more valid than wiki votes).

Tom

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