Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder updates - postal addresses, house maps and error maps

2011-03-21 Thread James Hogan
Hi Matt, On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 04:06:05PM +0100, Matt Williams wrote: > I've made a few updates to the postcode finder [1]. There's a mixture > of fixes suggested by you people and some other features I'd been > planning on implementing anyway. > > The new things: > - Postal address-like info o

Re: [Talk-GB] Codepoint duplicates

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 March 2011 12:05, Andy Allan wrote: [...] > A cautionary tale about inferring too much from postcodes - the > positions given are the position of where the mail should be delivered > to, and sometimes doesn't correspond to where you would expect given > the name and the rest of address. >

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Doerr
On 21/03/2011 17:04, Matt Williams wrote: On 21 March 2011 17:53, Derick Rethans wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Ed Loach wrote: Steve wrote: How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are. I'd be tempted to make up a tag, or maybe use designation= as I think often the centre

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Loach
Matt: > Is this not a suitable use of the operator= tag? Or is a SureStart > centre so different that it deserves more differentiation? > > In whichever case, I think that 'SureStart' should be fine. The nursery where my son is (which I'm basing most of my knowledge of Surestart Centre's on) is

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Matt Williams
On 21 March 2011 18:16, Ed Loach wrote: > Matt wrote: >> Indeed. I've been tagging these as amenity=kindergarten > > My son's nursery is also tagged as a kindergarten (how did that tag > value sneak in?) but I haven't tagged that it is also a designated > SureStart centre, which was Steve's origin

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Loach
Matt wrote: > Indeed. I've been tagging these as amenity=kindergarten My son's nursery is also tagged as a kindergarten (how did that tag value sneak in?) but I haven't tagged that it is also a designated SureStart centre, which was Steve's original question that I tried to answer. I am still te

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Matt Williams
On 21 March 2011 17:53, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Ed Loach wrote: >> Steve wrote: >> >> > How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are. >> >> I'd be tempted to make up a tag, or maybe use designation= as I >> think often the centres are primarily something e

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Ed Loach wrote: > Steve wrote: > > > How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are. > > I'd be tempted to make up a tag, or maybe use designation= as I > think often the centres are primarily something else. > > http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Presch

Re: [Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Loach
Steve wrote: > How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are. I'd be tempted to make up a tag, or maybe use designation= as I think often the centres are primarily something else. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Preschooldevelopmentandlearning/ NurseriesPlaygroupsReceptio

[Talk-GB] SureStart Children's Centres

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Doerr
How do you tag these? I confess I don't really know what they are. -- Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] OS and OSM

2011-03-21 Thread Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM
On 11/03/2011 10:19, Steve Chilton wrote: I have been asked by editor of the Cartographic Journal to write a short piece on the effect of the release of OS OpenData on the OpenStreetMap project, and I am just trying to gather my thoughts, and make sure I cover all bases. I was present at Blacka

Re: [Talk-GB] Codepoint duplicates

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Allan
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 20/03/11 22:20, Matt Williams wrote: > >> Ahh, looking at the map [2] it seems that they are all located at the >> Royal Mail distribution office. My question still stands though: are >> these just surplus postcodes or some error? There are

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder updates - postal addresses, house maps and error maps

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Avis
Matt Williams writes: >>Possible bug: I just tried searching for my own address (42c Mulberry Road) >>and it returned no results, >What I _plan_ to add it that if you search for '42c Mulberry Road' >then it will indeed return a result as you'd expect but there's no way >to do anything useful if

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder updates - postal addresses, house maps and error maps

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Avis
Steve Doerr writes: >>'Postcode W9 is badly formed' - many streets are tagged with just the first >>part of the postcode (the outbound code). >>I do however want to flag >>these as, while they are certainly useful, they are not 'true >>postcodes'. > >I agree with the last point: 'postcode' is a