[Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

[Chris Hill]

Very useful lists. I've fixed the HU mistakes the list highlighted. One 
thing that did jump out at me is that a postcode was added to the area 
of a school rather than one of the buildings. Is this common practice?

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Cheers, Chris (chillly)



On 18/10/16 00:42, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> As I've been adding quite a few new addr:postcode tags as part of the
> quarterly project to use the FHRS data, I began wondering what the
> overall state of addr:postcode tags was in the UK. I've started doing
> a bit of analysis, which has began by checking the OSM postcodes
> against the Code-Point Open dataset.
>
> The first output I've produced is a list of likely errors where
> addr:postcode values either do not have the appropriate formatting or
> do not match an entry in Code-Point Open. There's quite a large number
> of such errors, although it's pretty small as a percentage of the
> total addr:postcode tags.
>
> If you're interested, have a look at
> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postcodes/osm-errors.html and see if you
> can help by fixing any of them. Some will be errors in source data,
> but others could well be typos and transcription errors.
>
> Robert.
>