John's right. There's not much of an alternative. Considering in Ireland that we have no postcodes (yet) he's probably going to use a system based on townland ( the kind I live in and it appears to be a vague historical area of a few acres across), town, village or city that's mapped to geo coords.
Replacing that might take some crowd. The issue is that there's massive duplication of names - newtown's, newbridge's and pitchfords and then the irish names, traditional local names and the lets call a place something posher like Castleknock to increase the house prices names. You need local expertise and the postal service has a monopoly on that as any poor UPS or GLS delivery guy will tell you. It's not unusual to receive in the post a postcard saying "We have a parcel for you please ring and give us directions." Regards, Shaun Laughey Kellystown, ... Ireland. On 12 August 2011 12:23, Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > [John Handelaar] >> Well, sure. Got an alternative? > > Create your own database. That is what was done in Norway. I started > on my own and got a few hundred post codes -> coordinate entries in it > before a good fellow over at the national television broadcast > crowdsourced for volunteers using their weather site, and created his > own complete set. > > <URL: http://www.erikbolstad.no/geo/noreg/postnummer/ > is the new > complete set. Erik Bolstad is the person creating it. Perhaps you > can borrow his crowdsourcing setup? > > Happy hacking, > -- > Petter Reinholdtsen > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/shaun%40laughey.com > _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
