On 17 March 2011 13:49, Derick Rethans <o...@derickrethans.nl> wrote: > 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!
Thank you :) >> 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 Hmm, this seems like a bug in my code somewhere. Thanks for the detailed report, I'll look into this as soon as I get home from 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. Very true but at least it's a good start. As I said in another message, I either need to do some spatial processing myself (which I can't at the moment since I'm simply parsing the planet file in a SAX-type way) or use Nominatim somehow. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb