[Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Thu Mar 17 12:41:25 GMT 2011


This is great stuff - could I make a few suggestions?

- When displaying the textual address put a comma between name and street.
  For example
  <http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/house/way/42732730/>
  should show 'Mole Avon, Station Yard'.  The comma is not necessary for house
  *numbers* but it is for names.

- If a street does have house numbers but not the particular number entered,
  there might be the option to log this in a bug database.

The following two suggestions would make the tool more useful, but they might
be out of scope if your intention is strictly to show fully-tagged Karlsruhe
schema data and nothing else.

- Have you considered using the Code Point Open data as a fallback in case the
  postcode is not in OSM?  It would not allow an exact address to be pinpointed
  but it could give a link to the right area of the map with a hint to get to
  work populating it fully.

- Similarly if a street is found but has no house numbers, zoom to that street.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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