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

[Ed Avis]

Matt Williams <lists at ...> writes:

>>Possible bug: I just tried searching for my own address (42c Mulberry Road)
>>and it returned no results,

>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.

If I understand you rightly, you're saying that you could return all such houses
across the whole country but you wouldn't be able to group them by street.  Some
fishing around in the map for a nearby street with that name would be needed.
This is certainly an advantage of mapping it as a relation.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>