[Talk-GB] [talk-gb] GRO places of worship register

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On Wed, 8 Sept 2021 at 22:40, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com> wrote:
> The register is a complete mess (some entries date from 1855), with no consistency between fields. I'm trying to clean it up by concatenating the address fields, then trying to extract from that string tentative values for addr:postcode, addr:housenumber, and addr:street.
>
> 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.

Gregrs does some pretty good address parsing in his FHRS tool at
https://gregrs.dev.openstreetmap.org/fhodot/ . I think he makes use of
OS Open Names (as has already been suggested) to identify places and
streets. What he does to generate OSM addr:* tags works very well in
my experience, so it would probably be worth you talking to him. The
transformations are not perfect though. The main issues are when a
minor street name is missing from Open Names (so it doesn't get
identified as a street) or a street name happens to also match a place
name (and gets mis-identified as such).

Robert.