[Talk-GB] [talk-gb] GRO places of worship register
Mark Goodge
mark at good-stuff.co.uk
Thu Sep 9 07:41:38 UTC 2021
On 08/09/2021 22:38, Edward Bainton wrote:
> Is there a list of all notable named places in the UK, and which aren't
> necessarily posttowns, city corporations, etc? (or could Overpass supply
> one?) That would be some way to identify addr:city or to rule out a
> value as probably not part of the road name but rather the locality
> where the place is found.
OS Open Names would probably be useful here. It lists every named object
in the OS database, and includes a column for whether it's a road, a
locality, etc. In particular, the "City", "Town", "Village", Suburban
Area" and "Other Settlement" values will be relevant.
What you'll still need to watch out for, though, are names that have
been recorded differently, or even changed since they were added to the
GRO database. Given the age of some of the data, that's likely to be a
significant issue.
Mark
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