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Locality not populated #54

Open Donoss-zz opened 9 years ago

Donoss-zz commented 9 years ago

Hi, I've noticed that most of the addresses within my own locality do not have the locality populated. Is there a mechanism by which we can update these and resubmit in bulk?

Many thanks

Andy

giacecco commented 9 years ago

Hi Andy, For the time being our parser is dropping the locality names where the address is unambiguous even without using it, typically when a postcode is specified. Other users like you have challenged this choice, too. What do you reckon?

Donoss-zz commented 9 years ago

Gianfranco,

I see it as being an issue for small businesses and business where different people are doing order entry and service delivery. If I look at ‘CHURCH STREET’ in ‘DONCASTER’ I have postcodes in DN3, DN5, DN9, DN10 and DN12. For the smaller business, especially mobile who needs to find their destination e.g. plumbers, dog groomers, cleaners, carers etc., with the LOCALITY known they can start to head towards a destination, without it they will need to look it up or have satnav. I believe not having the locality will put some potential users of these data off.

Hope this helps.

Many thanks

Andy

giacecco commented 9 years ago

I personally feel, too, that in later releases localities should be preserved, and not only!

With @murraydata for example we talked often about the importance of 'vernacular' localities: localities that you won't even find in our "reference tables" but that are very meaningful to the people there.

@peterkwells you don't need a new entry in the roadmap: this is part of the work we need to do on revising the address model https://github.com/OpenAddressesUK/roadmap/issues/66 . We just need to add it there as one of the requirements to address.