[OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

[davespod]

Pieren wrote: 

> And after a quick check on the FR addresses, I've seen that about 10% of
> the 
> post codes are wrong. 

Yes, I think this may be a very useful additional resource, and I commend
Mapquest for releasing it, but please don't anyone think about a global bulk
upload. 

I just checked three UK addresses for towns I've worked in (ok, not a
scientific sample). One was correct, one was ambigious and one was seriously
wrong. 

The seriously wrong one worried me slightly: 

1 Stafford Park GB Telford TF3 3BD 1 1 52696080 -2449940 

A Google search brings up businesses with that postcode on the road:
Stafford Park 1 (the number is part of the road name), so roughly correct.
But the lat/lon corresponds to the Stafford Road, a road in the same town,
but two miles away. So, I wonder where the user got the co-ordinates from.
Seems too much of a coincidence just to have misread the co-ordinates.
Typing the road name into their TomTom, and choosing the wrong road? 

Cheers 

David  



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