Re: [Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

Hi, It is interesting that people often say UK counties are defunct because the post office no longer use them; you could argue that postal addressing was not really the purpose of counties in the first place. The point of counties being more about governmental practices than delivering post.

[Talk-GB] Quick tagging question

Hi, Is it ok to add a tag 'addr:county' when drawing properties, it doesn't seem to be an officially recognised tag but I can find some references to it online? Also, would you put sub-districts of a town (i.e. Wyke Regis in Weymouth) under 'addr:place'? Best Regards, Paul Wittle GIS

Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK

Hi, I'm running an unofficial party on Wednesday 27th in Weymouth as I've managed to generate a bit of interest in Weymouth. I'm hoping to explain a bit about what OSM is as well as HOT and then if people are still interested I'd be looking to organise an official mapping party where we might

[Talk-GB] HOT in the UK

Hello, I've subscribed to this message list because I'm looking around to see if there is any organised UK group which deals with HOT projects. I believe this is a US based NGO setup to coordinate the use of OSM for disaster relief efforts after major events such as the recent earthquakes in