Companies House don't validate anything. That much is well known.
What Richard was saying was that if you use their web form to
submit then it autocompletes using PAF but most older entries
will have been submitted on paper with no such normalisation.
Tom
On 29/01/2019 00:00, Will Phillips wrote:
Sorry for misquoting! I've got no idea how I managed to do that.
Regarding Registered Companies data, there's a great deal of variation
in the formatting of the addresses included, as well as plenty of
misspellings, so my impression is most of the addresses are unvalidated.
I suspect validation has started quite recently.
I take on board that there are strong feelings regarding post towns. I
slightly regret mentioning it now, because I considered the more
important point of my original message to be the need for an agreed tag
for adding localities. Some mappers do seem to want to add both locality
and city details and it would be good to have a more agreed way to do
this, which doesn't use addr:place.
Cheers,
Will
On 28/01/2019 22:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I'm not quite sure what you've done with the quoting but you've
attributed me
as writing your reply, which evidently I didn't. :)
Will Phillips wrote:
I really don't see what is outlandish about using post towns as a
guide for what goes in the addr:city tag. Royal Mail might be becoming
less important, but when most people are asked for their address, they
will give their address as defined by Royal Mail.
Looking at the Companies House Registered Companies data for
Charlbury, I find 235 addresses of which 170 include Chipping Norton.
I find Registered Companies data useful because the addresses appear
unvalidated and therefore show addresses as people actually enter them.
No-one in Charlbury describes themselves as living in Chipping Norton.
Honestly, no-one. It's a separate town.
Companies House data for my company shows a registered address of 11
Market
Street, Charlbury, Chipping Norton. That is not because I think I live in
Chipping Norton. That is because, when you register a company, the
Companies
House autocomplete thing takes your postcode and fills in the Royal Mail
post-town and other details from PAF.
(TBH, I'm not entirely convinced post towns help Royal Mail in any case,
given the amount of mail mistakenly delivered to us that is actually
meant
for Mr G------- at 11 Market Street, Chipping Norton...)
Richard
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