Thanks for this Chris, I've just added about 100 addr:postcodes to some of my manor in no time at all. It was mostly pretty easy to identify a good match for and existing building. Then I went back and added a source tag as an afterthought.
Great stuff all round, I''l try to remember to make at trip to raggedred.net part of future mapping exploits. --- https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain spiregrain_...@ksglp.org.uk On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, at 2:20 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > I would not like to see that happen. OSM maps real objects, postcodes are not > real and only apply as a part of an object's address. They apply to buildings > (delivery points on buildings really). The postcodes in Codepoint Open are > centroids derived from a combination of all the delivery points that share > the postcode so are not at all real-world objects. > If you want to apply postcodes to addresses you can see the map overlay I > have produced which you can use in editors as an overlay: > https://codepoint.raggedred.net/ I will update it again shortly. You can also > derive postcodes from other open data sources such as FHRS data. > -- cheers Chris Hill (chillly) > > On 02/10/2019 13:43, Russ Phillips via Talk-GB wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm wondering if it would be feasible and advisable to import the UK >> postcode data from OS OpenData Codepoint >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_OpenData#Code-Point_Open>. >> The licence is OSM compatible. My thinking was that we could create a node >> for each data point and set the addr:postcode tag. This would be useful for >> routing software like OsmAnd, since it would allow a user to enter a >> postcode as a destination. >> I'm happy to do the work, but the import guidelines >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> say that imports >> should be discussed on the imports@ list and the appropriate local >> communities, hence this email. >> Russ Phillips > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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