Automatic address verification

General talk
1

Hi there,

I do have about 500 addresses - just streetnames, housenumber, postal code and cityname. No names of any person. I would like to automatically verify the addresses against the database. Is it possible? Is there an interface within openstreetmap where I can send something like this

<verify>
<street>Virginia Road</street>
<housenumber>20</housenumber>
<postal code>98AB12</postal code>
<city>London</city>
</verify>

and receive e.g. the state (true/false) about whether that address does exist and its geodata?

Regards,

IbnAli

2

As far as I know we currently do not have such an interface. This is mainly due to the fact that we do not have all postal codes and house number in OSM.

3

have very few postal codes and house numbers in OSM…

but you can try to use namfinder to search for “Streetname in city” and maybe you will get matches.