[Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

[Matt Williams]

On 17 March 2011 17:44, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM <SK53_osm at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Matt Williams [mailto:lists at milliams.com] wrote:
>>>
>>> Sent: 16 March 2011 7:51 PM
>>> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>>> Subject: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data
>>>
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
>>>  ...
>>
>> Works a treat and it's great to see all my hard work with addressing for
>> the
>> B72 postcodes.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
> Worth noting NG9, I don't think this is absolutely complete, but its not far
> off (mapper will_p).

I'll be sure to check it out.

> A few weeks ago I did pull out postcodes from all tagged objects & compared
> them with CodePoint, IIRC OSM had about 0.6% of them (around 7000 in
> addr:postcode format, and another 4000 in postal_code tags). These figures
> will have increased substantally since then (B72 was only 41% complete at
> the time).

Yeah, it looks a lot better now. I count 70,608 houses with postcodes
in OSM. This will more than you measured because this is expanding out
interpolated address ways and buildings with more than one house
number.

> I do have codepoint available in WGS84 co-ordinates, but possibly not the
> latest version.

Chris Hill has sent me his converted data off-list but thanks for the offer.

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Matt Williams
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