[Talk-GB] FW: Office of National Statistics data

[SomeoneElse]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 31/10/12 11:58, Steve Doerr wrote:
>> On 31/10/2012 11:54, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>> On 31/10/12 11:51, Steve Doerr wrote:
>>>> On 31/10/2012 11:44, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>>>> On 31/10/12 11:39, Steve Doerr wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can we get this data into Nominatim?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why? What would it give us over the CodePoint Open data?
>>>>
>>>> Is that in there?
>>>
>>> I believe it is in Nominatim 2 yes.
>>
>> Is that different to what's used on www.openstreetmap.org for the Search
>> box? That's where I want to see accurate postcode searching.
>
> The search box on www.osm.org uses nominatim.osm.org which as far as I 
> know is running Nominatim 2 and includes Codepoint Open as a data source.
>
> Tom
>
I've just tried searching osm.org for S42 7DT and the first answer is a 
street that is actually S42 7DY according to Chris's site.  Is it 
perhaps just using the first "S42 7##" part?

Cheers,
Andy