[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project 2020Q1

[Cj Malone]

On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 19:13 +0000, SK53 wrote:
> is that UPRNs are often assigned sequentially by house number (either
> for both sides of the street, or for each side separately)
> - this works most reliably with housing built pre-2000 though.

I would be a bit cautious when using OS Open UPRN as a source for
locations of new builds. I don't know what they use as a source but it
seems to be wrong on some new builds. [1]

It would be interesting if we were monitoring OS Open UPRN though, new
UPRNS would identify areas that we should check. As you noted, it's
fairly easy to identify a residential area just by the placement of the
UPRNs, but also if a building goes from having one UPRN to a multiple
it could be an identifier for it turning into apartments.

Cj

[1] https://osm.mathmos.net/addresses/uprn/#19/50.6214/-1.1785