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

[Edward Bainton]

Just to say thanks for these replies.

OS Open Names is a great resource (though I can't easily work out which
enormous csv file is relevant for a given area? I must have missed the
documentation - not to seen on
https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenNames. Currently using desktop
search to find the local authority's full name).

Another mapper has DM'd me and has very helpfully passed all the data
through Perl to unconfound the fields.

More soon...

On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 11:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <
robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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