[Talk-GB] Autumn Quarterly Project

[Dave F]

Thanks Steve
Surprised by that. I thought the Lat/Lon were calculated direct from the 
postcode centroid

On 13/11/2016 18:27, Steve Doerr wrote:
> On 13/11/2016 10:49, Dave F wrote:
>
>> Could you clarify how the 'distant matches' are calculated? I'm 
>> confused by a couple of the errors it's thrown up:
>> http://gregrs.dev.openstreetmap.org/fhrs/district-270.html
>>
>> 'Sam Wellers', 'Longvernal Primary School' (at the very bottom). 
>> Their fhrs:ids match. There's no postcode in OSM & the FHRS postcode 
>> is close to it's true location. Their dashed lines point to the same 
>> location.
>
> Dave, if you look at the raw data at 
> http://ratings.food.gov.uk/OpenDataFiles/FHRS857en-GB.xml, you can see 
> that the location for Longvernal Primary School is given as:
>
> <Geocode>
> <Longitude>-3.04113507270813</Longitude>
> <Latitude>51.16165924072270</Latitude>
> </Geocode>
>
> which is way out. So this is indicative of an error in the FHRS data.
>