[Talk-GB] Wildly inaccurate postcode

[Marc Gemis]

I would try https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim

Or contact lonvia directly

Recently she wrote a diary entry on upcoming changes in the handling
of postal codes: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lonvia/diary/43143

regards

m.

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> File an issue on github for (I suspect) the OSM website:
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
>
> On 25 January 2018 at 14:05, Stuart Reynolds
> <stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> …and who does that? I didn’t ask for a search on NPEMap/FreeThePostcode,
>> and it isn’t something that is stored as a physical node on the map that I
>> can edit out. It is simply a service that sits behind the search box on
>> openstreetmap.org, so far as I can tell.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25 Jan 2018, at 13:44, Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/01/2018 11:48, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
>>
>> Who do we need to speak to at FreeThePostcode to get it fixed? Does anyone
>> have any contacts?
>>
>>
>> FreeThePostcode is obsolete, and has been ever since postcode data was
>> released under the OGL by OS and ONS. It will, therefore, never be updated
>> or fixed.
>>
>> The correct solution is to remove any data derived from FreeThePostcode
>> from OSM and Nominatim, and replace it with data from OS Codepoint and/or
>> the ONSPD. Additionally, NPEMap should no longer be used as a search
>> resource on OSM.
>>
>> Mark
>>
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