[Talk-GB] Postcode finder updates - postal addresses, house maps and error maps

[Matt Williams]

On 20 March 2011 21:19, Steve Doerr <steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20/03/2011 15:06, Matt Williams wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Possible bug: I just tried searching for my own address (42c Mulberry Road)
> and it returned no results, but if I search for my postcode (DA11 8PP) it
> returns '42c Mulberry Road'.

This is not so much a bug as it is an omission in two parts. Firstly I
don't do much with addr:street tags except add the information to the
node for display purposes. This leads on to the fact that I don't do
any search on addr:tags in the web interface.

What I _plan_ to add it that if you search for '42c Mulberry Road'
then it will indeed return a result as you'd expect but there's no way
to do anything useful if you search for just 'Mulberry Road'. This is
because since the house is not in a relation there's no way to group
together disparate houses with "addr:street=Mulberry Road" into
separate streets. Perhaps I could return all _houses_ which match the
street but I don't see that it's very useful and very noisy. This is
why I've been trying to map all my streets with associatedStreet
relations since it makes it explicit.

I'm open to suggestions though.

-- 
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com