Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-28 Thread Ed Avis
Chris Hill o...@... writes: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.legal/2544 I believe that the list from RM still is their copyright even though it has been supplied as from a request using the FoIA, so we can read it, find the box and add what we find to OSM, but just loading

[Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Bob Kerr
Hi all, Just in case you missed it, there is an article in the Guardian about the location of Postboxes and post offices in the UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/16/freedom-of-information-postboxes It then leads to the place where we can put this info onto openstreetmap

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Glenn Proctor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Just in case you missed it, there is an article in the Guardian about the location of Postboxes and post offices in the UK.

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
Nice article, though I'm sure there is an inaccuracy there as the Royal Mail don't actually know the exact locations of the post boxes, instead they have a rough description which was provided through the FOI. Shaun On 17 Sep 2009, at 10:48, Bob Kerr wrote: Hi all, Just in case you

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, Also I've spoken to Draco in the past, and his website does not sync with OSM. He has tried to get help with a mass import but the discussion was rat-holed due to supposed problem deriving data from Royal Mails postbox list.

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Hill
Ciarán Mooney wrote: Hi, Also I've spoken to Draco in the past, and his website does not sync with OSM. He has tried to get help with a mass import but the discussion was rat-holed due to supposed problem deriving data from Royal Mails postbox list.

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread John Robert Peterson
I'm pretty sure I heard from somewhere that the post code associated with the post box is actually a post code assosiated with the collection office, and that a house next to it can have a totally different post code. JR 2009/9/17 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net Ciarán Mooney wrote: Hi,

Re: [Talk-GB] Locating Postboxes article Guardian

2009-09-17 Thread Russ Phillips
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:49 PM, John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure I heard from somewhere that the post code associated with the post box is actually a post code assosiated with the collection office, and that a house next to it can have a totally different post