On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Tom Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location
of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF
containing their info.
I parsed the PDF and resorted it, the result is in tab separated
On 06/07/2008 23:58, Dermot McNally wrote:
2008/7/5 Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Interesting. I note that in both the PDF document and the cover letter that
the Royal Mail have made no attempt to assert any copyright or ownership but
doubt whether that is enough.
They do, though,
Tom Taylor wrote:
Sent: 05 July 2008 3:49 PM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data
However postcodes are not very accurate, they get you to within a
quarter/half/full street.
Again, agreed, but Royal Mail themselves don't hold any more accurate
information
Tom Taylor wrote:
I did some parsing of the PDF, and it seems that of the 114,000 post
boxes in the UK, 50599 seem to have valid postcode data.
I'm currently geocoding these postcodes using Yahoo's service, and
wondered if the resulting longitudes and latitudes would be of
interest to
2008/7/5 Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Interesting. I note that in both the PDF document and the cover letter that
the Royal Mail have made no attempt to assert any copyright or ownership but
doubt whether that is enough.
They do, though, right at the beginning:
(c) Royal Mail Group
Hello all,
I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location
of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF
containing their info.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
I did some parsing of the PDF, and it seems that of
At 03:36 PM 5/07/2008, Tom Taylor wrote:
Hello all,
I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location
of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF
containing their info.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
I did some
On 05/07/2008 14:36, Tom Taylor wrote:
Hello all,
I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location
of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF
containing their info.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
I did
On 5 Jul 2008, at 14:36, Tom Taylor wrote:
Hello all,
I recently made a Freedom of Information Act request for the location
of every UK post box. Royal Mail responded with a 1600 page PDF
containing their info.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
I did
On 5 Jul 2008, at 15:49, Tom Taylor wrote:
On 5 Jul 2008, at 15:29, Shaun McDonald wrote:
The problem is that you are geocoding using Yahoo's geocoding
services. Which simply isn't compatible with the OSM licence. If you
were to use OSM or free the postcode data for doing the geocoding,
On 5 Jul 2008, at 16:51, Shaun McDonald wrote:
http://edwardbetts.com/osm/stations.html
That's nice. I'll see if I can knock something similar together using
postcode boundaries.
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- Original Message -
From: Mike Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tom Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]; talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] UK post box data
Can you point to an on-line copy of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 itself, I wonder
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