[Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

[Tom Chance]

On 5 September 2012 16:43, Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com> wrote:

> Ok, first iteration of something with this is up at
> http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/landregistry/
>
> It's extremely basic and isn't providing much more than you can get
> with a bit of grep magic. You enter a postcode and it does a substring
> match to get all the matching entries. I have added all 349,849 (up to
> and including the July data) entries.
>

That's already useful, thanks.


>
> The next step will be to take start matching up that list with the
> address provided through
> http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/ and show a map
> of matches.
>

Great.

It would also be very handy to have the entries in the table and the map
markers colour coded to indicate whether there is an object already in
OSM with both a matching address (ignoring the SAON data) and postcode so
we can spot only entries that are missing.

Regards,
Tom

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