Hi Lester, Sorry if my post was a bit of a rant. I have a history of having to fight to get IT systems that do the hard work and preventing them demanding that people do the translation into "machine-speak". Thanks for the explanation. Regards,Peter On Thursday, 9 April 2020, 10:29:05 BST, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.uk> wrote: On 03/04/2020 10:15, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote: > So, will I have to quote a 20-digit alpha-numeric code, if I want to > order something from Amazon? ..or get my grandchildren to send me a > birthday card? > > (I do not know what these UPRN's look like, but I bet they are not as > easy to remember as "Rose Cottage, 3 Church Lane, XX3 4ZZ") > > We have to think about human readability and memorability, versus > machine computability and we need to be careful not to make the humans > do all the work, just to make it easier for the machines. Making me use > a PostCode is already making me do some of the work, but at least they > are only 6 or 7 characters.
The NLPG is intended to provide a single database of all the land in the United Kingdom. Councils have been building this for many years now, and it allows parcels of land that the Post Office do not have any reference to in their Postal Address File to be uniquely identified. Looking up data using Postcodes can be fun but often due to people having the wrong postcode anyway. We can identify the vast majority of residential and business locations using 'building Number'/'Postcode', but additional data is useful to identify that this short form is actually correct, but your council tax or business rates will be charged against the UPRN reference on the council systems. It is not intended to be anything other than a 'machine readable' unique refference ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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