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From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of LeedsTracker
Sent: 14 January 2009 01:38
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org; talk-gb-theno...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] Locating postboxes - any photos around?
LeedsTracker wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting, and sorry if you already knew about this.
I searched talk-gb via Google and found nothing, and this was new to
me until a few days ago.
A nifty project that uses OSM to locate postboxes:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
If
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:38:25AM GMT, LeedsTracker wrote:
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Even handier:
You can add postboxes and their references to OSM – use a key of ref,
and this site will automatically pick them up every week or so.
I tend to map with a camera and take photos of the front plate of
postboxes
Andy wrote:
Yes, I've been associating the majority of the post boxes in
North
Birmingham with Matthew's dracos site for a bit. In doing so
I've found
that a few I don't have because they are collection points
associated
with post offices and sorting offices (no box to get the
reference
2009/1/14 Andy Robinson ajrli...@googlemail.com:
[snip]
and one or
two that for some reason don't show up on Matthews site despite being in the
OSM db.
I wonder if that is because they are not in the postcode area you
think they are.
This doesn't apply if you have collected the postbox ref
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