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Seems to only work by street name. If I put in two UK postcodes the results are almost always wrong. This seems to be a problem in normal OSM anyway, if you s
by joshvm 12y ago
Seems to only work by street name. If I put in two UK postcodes the results are almost always wrong. This seems to be a problem in normal OSM anyway, if you search for an exact postcode, a list of nearby streets come up and the street you actually want is incorrectly listed. Where should I go to fix this? Seems like it should be a simple enough edit.
- ris 12y agoThe postcode database is not Free (enough).
- bazzargh 12y agoRe where should I go to fix this: * https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/ https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/ ...which is still only in alpha, so don't expect much. Read their posts about the data sources (https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/about/docs https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/about/docs) to see why this is in such a bad state.
- Doctor_Fegg 12y agoThis won't fix the data in OSM; this will contribute to OpenAddresses UK which is a separate (though worthy!) project.
- Doctor_Fegg 12y agoIn theory you just need to add the 'addr:postcode' tag to the relevant house or street. That said, OSM's geocoder has a few issues with postcodes at present: https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2497 https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2497 . The second para of lonvia's final comment is the crux - "[postcode updates are] a very expensive operation and so the centroids don't get updated and postcodes go stale with time".