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

[Lester Caine]

Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>> 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.

What gets a little confusing is that the results will only contain the full 
postcode if it's been added to an address, otherwise you may get results from 
several postcodes in highly populated areas. Once the data is transferred to 
addresses, only those addresses appear.

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