On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams <li...@milliams.com> wrote: > > > For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the > > Royal Mail's postcode/address finder > > That's great; and I trust that my constructive feedback won't be taken > as dissing your achievment...
Same here, I like this! > You return nothing for "B1 1BB" (Birmingham Council House), which is > tagged "addr:postcode=B1 1BB" I found something else odd too: http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/search/?postcode=NW6 returns: # NW6 7JN http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/NW6%207JN/ # nw6 7ny http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/search/?postcode=NW6 http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/NW6%207JN/ works http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/NW6%207NY/ (can't find) and http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/nw6%207ny/ (404) do not work > For a common address, such as "2 High Street", you return multiple > results, with no obvious distinguishing feature. Please include the > "addr:city" value in the results (if present); and allow searches to > be limited by that tag. Actually, "city" wouldn't always work. There are f.e. 3 "Victoria Road"s in London. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
