Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@... writes:
[http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/]
Can the manually located postboxes, based on OSM data and a list of
postbox street locations from the Royal Mail, be added to OSM?
Yes.
I have started work on a tool to sync these
(code at
2009/7/14 Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net:
Royal Mail doesn't know the exact location of all its postboxes. If we
find out for them, what are the chances they would sue us? It's flipping
useful from their point of view. They could apply proper Travelling
Salesman algorithms to them to
On 13 Jul 2009, at 18:58, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 08/07/09 12:13, Stephen Gower wrote:
Actually, for what it's worth (probably very little) the very
original file
is provided as a PDF on the section of
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
marked from
On 08/07/09 12:13, Stephen Gower wrote:
Actually, for what it's worth (probably very little) the very original file
is provided as a PDF on the section of
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
marked from Royal Mail Group and dated 13 June 2008. The only reason
In Britain, the postal service has supplied a text file listing all
post boxes. Each box has a 'ref' looking like 'W1 106', and of course
it has a location in the real world. The text file doesn't give
lat/long or grid references, just the name of the street or
intersection. Sometimes the
On 01/07/09 11:18, Ed Avis wrote:
Can the manually located postboxes, based on OSM data and a list of
postbox street locations from the Royal Mail, be added to OSM?
Yes. But have you checked with Matthew Somerville, the author of that
tool? AIUI it's already integrated with OSM. I did the
