[Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap)

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists ajrlists@... writes: Great work! How can you tell when you have every postcode and is there some way of checking them against the OS OpenData postcode centroids? Just by being systematic. If you have Chillly's codepoint postcode layer sitting over BING its easy

Re: [Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap)

Ed Avis [mailto:e...@waniasset.com] wrote: Sent: 15 February 2011 5:24 PM To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap) Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists ajrlists@... writes: Great work! How can you tell when you have every postcode

Re: [Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap)

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists ajrlists@... writes: http://www.raggedred.net/codepoint/ I see - so you can use your judgement to work out the area of a postcode based on its centroid and the streets and buildings nearby. It's not that simple. You need to do the ground survey first to get the

Re: [Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap)

Ed Avis [mailto:e...@waniasset.com] wrote: Sent: 15 February 2011 5:40 PM To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap) Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists ajrlists@... writes: http://www.raggedred.net/codepoint/ I see - so you can use your

Re: [Talk-GB] Armchair-mapping postcodes (was: B72 is a wrap)

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists ajrlists@... writes: OSM's coverage of streets is much better than its coverage of buildings. Might it make sense to tag postcodes on ways? Nope, streets often have more than one postcode for the properties on that street. It's not the street that has a postcode