On 17 March 2011 17:44, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM <sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Matt Williams [mailto:li...@milliams.com] wrote: >>> >>> Sent: 16 March 2011 7:51 PM >>> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >>> Subject: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data >>> >>> Greetings all, >>> >>> For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the >>> ... >> >> Works a treat and it's great to see all my hard work with addressing for >> the >> B72 postcodes. >> >> Cheers >> >> Andy >> >> > Worth noting NG9, I don't think this is absolutely complete, but its not far > off (mapper will_p).
I'll be sure to check it out. > A few weeks ago I did pull out postcodes from all tagged objects & compared > them with CodePoint, IIRC OSM had about 0.6% of them (around 7000 in > addr:postcode format, and another 4000 in postal_code tags). These figures > will have increased substantally since then (B72 was only 41% complete at > the time). Yeah, it looks a lot better now. I count 70,608 houses with postcodes in OSM. This will more than you measured because this is expanding out interpolated address ways and buildings with more than one house number. > I do have codepoint available in WGS84 co-ordinates, but possibly not the > latest version. Chris Hill has sent me his converted data off-list but thanks for the offer. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb