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Reporter: eda[at]waniasset.com [Submitted to the original trac issue database at 1.47pm, Thursday, 9th October 2008]
Searching for '1 Snowden Street, London EC2A' produces no results, while searching for '1 Snowden Street, London' works.
The EC2A is the first part of a United Kingdom postcode. These postcodes are two words and by convention you can give just the first part to refer to an area. Existing maps such as the 'London A-Z' use the first part of the postcode to disambiguate street names.
In general I suggest that if a search finds no results, but there is something that looks like a postal code at the end of the string, try removing that bit and retrying the search.
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Author: eda[at]waniasset.com [Added to the original trac issue at 4.38pm, Thursday, 9th October 2008]
Um, actually the '1' at the beginning of the address might need to be removed too. This is another enhancement that should be added: if a search returns no results then strip off the house number at the front and try again.
Author: david[at]frankieandshadow.com [Added to the original trac issue at 9.30am, Wednesday, 26th November 2008]
Namefinder was never set up to search for partial postcodes, so it's not surprising it didn't find them. It was doing a search just like any other.
Rather than build this in as a special case, what I've done is to insert nodes into the OSM data for each of the 3,000-odd postcode area centroids, so that a search for them finds those nodes like any other. (This also opens up the possibility of using this data to confine postcode searches to near the centroid - at the moment, a search for XX1 1YY can determine it should look for "Foobar Street, Cambridge" and then finds that street in Cambridge Massachusetts because there happens to be one there too).
Reporter: eda[at]waniasset.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 1.47pm, Thursday, 9th October 2008]
Searching for '1 Snowden Street, London EC2A' produces no results, while searching for '1 Snowden Street, London' works.
The EC2A is the first part of a United Kingdom postcode. These postcodes are two words and by convention you can give just the first part to refer to an area. Existing maps such as the 'London A-Z' use the first part of the postcode to disambiguate street names.
In general I suggest that if a search finds no results, but there is something that looks like a postal code at the end of the string, try removing that bit and retrying the search.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: