[Talk-GB] UK Postcode Analysis

[Jez Nicholson]

Robert...are you going to rerun it? or set it to automatically rerun?

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 at 10:11 Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantastic tool Rob -fixed most of South Birmingham using it.
>
> On 18 October 2016 at 00:42, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <
> robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> 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.
>
> --
> Robert Whittaker
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