Another OS OpenData dataset, OS Open Names, supports association of postcode centroids with road names.
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html Owen On 25 September 2016 at 22:52, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 25/09/16 21:34, Gervase Markham wrote: > > Does this not bother anyone else? It is just me? If it bothers lots of > > people, why did those projects shut and why does no-one appear to be > > doing anything about it? I kind of feel I must have missed something big > > as this has seemed like an enormous glaring issue for years, but no-one > > else seems bothered... > > CodePoint does not give road names, only a coordinate. What we need is > to add postcodes to every road already in the OSM data. Perhaps that > should be a quarterly project? Although in my book, since 'we' paid the > council rates that paid for building the NSG (National Street Gazeteer), > I see no reason that should not be downloadable data. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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