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

[Tom Chance]

On Oct 31, 2012 6:14 PM, "Brian Quinion" <openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> On 31 October 2012 16:59, Kevin Peat <k at k3v.eu> wrote:
>>
>> On 31 October 2012 14:50, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>> > I think this is quite a confusing approach. Post code searches often
end up
>> > returning the wrong street that is also near the centroid, houses that
don't
>> > belong to that post code that happen to be nearby, and also weird
objects
>> > like trees and car club parking bays.
>>
>> +1 on that. When I search for my own postcode, as well as the
>> buildings actually tagged with it the pub car park next door is also
>> returned and a nearby unclassified road neither of which have a
>> postcode set. I think in a postcode search it would be better not to
>> return things that could never have a postcode.
>>
>
> Making this sort of distinction (what > can have a postcode)
> is incredibly difficult - for instance
> NCP carparks do have a postcode.

The easiest solution is to let mappers explicitly tag postcodes, and not
infer they are associated with objects based on proximity to a centroid.

Tom
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