Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

2012-04-11 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 10 April 2012 09:20, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: IMHO there never was a problem. OS said they couldn't speak for Royal Mail, which is fair enough, but it doesn't mean there is an actual problem. Codepoint Open now features on the data.gov.uk website as something that uses the Open

Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode update

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Bivand
The confusion partly lies with data.gov.uk. There are two Codepoint Open datasets listed, one put there by Ordnance Survey (BIS), http://data.gov.uk/dataset/code-point-open And one placed by the English Department for Communitiesm and Local Government (CLG).

[Talk-GB] Tagging roads with metadata about the people they're named after

2012-04-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
My comment on this blog post, about a proposal to build a database of people whom roads are named after, may be of interest: http://janetedavis.posterous.com/gendered-uk-street-maps -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___

[Talk-GB] Anyone else had GPS problems today?

2012-04-11 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Had some quite extraordinary problems trying to get a GPS signal this afternoon in the Fisherstreet area, on the Surrey/W Sussex border a few miles SE of Haslemere. Between around 1300 and 1400 BST I could get no signal whatsoever. I lost the signal in a wooded area around 1255 BST and then