After winter break I have started this week cycling to and from work. On my way back on Monday I saw the Heron under bridge from Fords Road over Water of Leith I had not seen him as far up as that and was closest I had seen him. He looked back at me, and turned around showing of his big quif like feather on his head that I had not noticed before, a pity I did not have a camera. My camera card not working well it unmounts after transferring one photo to computer.
I have recent been looking at issue of addresses.
And came across the Association of British Counties who have convinced me to now use the historic county more in addresses, especially ones where not really in located in the ‘post town’. I also use the Gazetteer they provide.
NPLG do a gazetteer of addresses but it is not freely accessible. They just seem to sell it like the Royal Mail’s PAF but at least one can search a few online.
Interesting interview at:
http://aligned-assets.blogspot.com/2008/06/interview-with-ias-gayle-gander.html
It is interesting how they say the high pricing at the moment has out back a aim they have which seems to come from there being the BS7666 standard of all software storing address in BS7666 with UPRNs. This would certainly help with some of problems at my work we have with addresses. But with how prices are and inertia to continue as have been very unlikely to be used.
The fields the addresses are held in are limiting and not constant due to way implemented, and there is a mismatch between how some templates use fields and how data is transferred from these fields to other systems. This should be changed anyway to ensure accuracy and BS7666 layout would seem as good as any. And I like some aspect of how structured over the way PAF is structured but both beat present, which mangles or truncates many addresses imported from the PAF.
Structure of NPLG
Structure of PAF