Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project Oct-Dec 2016

The three obvious categories are restaurants (inc. cafes), takeaways & pubs. Supermarkets is a small set. Schools we've already done. Retailers (other) covers convenience stores and other small food shops. The other categories are less useful (although care homes in conjunction with CQC Open Data

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

I just re-read a post I wrote nearly 3 years ago. I think a lot of it holds true today, so I've copied the main points here : 1. The simplest, but not necessarily the easiest target, is to map at least one

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project Oct-Dec 2016

2016-09-26 12:20 GMT+01:00 Jez Nicholson : > 5 days to go until the next UK Quarterly Project > > Without spinning off into a discussion of the merits of each > suggestionwhat do we need to do to agree the subject? > > I believe that suggestions were: > > A. improving

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project Oct-Dec 2016

A. However the FHRS database is quite big, so maybe just do a subset, say, restaurants? Dave F. On 26/09/2016 12:20, Jez Nicholson wrote: 5 days to go until the next UK Quarterly Project Without spinning off into a discussion of the merits of each suggestionwhat do we need to do to

[Talk-GB] UK Quarterly Project Oct-Dec 2016

5 days to go until the next UK Quarterly Project Without spinning off into a discussion of the merits of each suggestionwhat do we need to do to agree the subject? I believe that suggestions were: A. improving address data for town centres using the food hygiene dataset B. town centre

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

It looks like the next UK Quarterly Project will be based on improving address data for town centres using the food hygiene dataset. Why don't we have a push generally on postcodes too, not limiting it to town centres? Regards Brian On 26 September 2016 at 11:25, David Woolley

[Talk-GB] UK OSM Community Interest Company (UK local chapter)

Hi everyone Now that SotM has finished we should have time to concentrate on the pro bono legal review of our Articles of Association. I'll give it a week for folk to fnd time to look at this. If there's a deal of contention on any issue then we'll have a concall to resolve it, if not then I'll

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

On 26/09/16 10:19, Owen Boswarva wrote: That could be done but it's not straightforward; you'll get a lot of overlapping postcode sectors and sectors with non-contiguous parts. GeoLytix produced an open dataset like that some time ago: http://blog.geolytix.net/tag/postcode-boundaries/ In my

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

As far as I know Nominatim contains a copy of either the CodePoint Open or ONS postcodes in a table called gb_postcode (see here on github). Here's a search

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

On 25/09/16 23:24, Chris Hill wrote: > Postcodes don't apply to a road, they apply to a collection of delivery > points. Many, many roads have multiple postcodes Reply on phone went to wrong place ;) If we have buildings on a road, then the postcode goes on every building, but I still think that

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

ONS's National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) includes postcodes for the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, but without geographic coordinates. http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets?q=National+Statistics+Postcode+Lookup_by=relevance Owen On 26 September 2016 at 09:55, Christian Ledermann

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

That could be done but it's not straightforward; you'll get a lot of overlapping postcode sectors and sectors with non-contiguous parts. GeoLytix produced an open dataset like that some time ago: http://blog.geolytix.net/tag/postcode-boundaries/ Owen On 26 September 2016 at 09:39, Colin Smale

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

On 26/09/16 09:39, Chris Hill wrote: > Please do not add postcode centroids to the map. They are not real, do > not exist and do not belong in the OSM DB. Just so we know, what is your view of the correct way for OSM search engines to allow searching on postcode data from around the world? Do you

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

I'm wondering if this FAQ is still up to date, which notes that the postcodes were computed in October 2012 and haven't been updated since. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/FAQ#My_postcode_is_missing.2Fwrong_but_I.27ve_fixed_it_in_the_OSM_data._What_is_wrong.3F There are many

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

OS Codepoint also does not include the postcodes for the Isle of Man and the channel islands. Is there an open data source for theses postcodes? On 26 September 2016 at 09:01, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 25/09/16 21:47, Owen Boswarva wrote: >> I can't see any reason why

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

How about deriving polygons for the postcode sector level (XX9 9) from the centroid point cloud, and adding the polygons to OSM? I don't know how many that would give, but it would be a whole lot less than 500k and still at a very usable level. //colin On 2016-09-26 10:01, Gervase Markham

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

On 25/09/16 21:47, Owen Boswarva wrote: > I can't see any reason why there should be a problem using Code-Point > Open in OSM, now that Ordnance Survey has applied the Open Government > Licence in place of its own licence. If you read further down, the wiki > page gives examples of OSM projects