Where zip / postal codes are widely used, it is useful information is to > build up in OSM for search proximity purposes ... something I am working on > at the moment. "Show me all the restaurants near zip code 1543" for > example. Even having just one lat/lon tagged reference to zip code 1543 can > therefore be very useful. > > There is no lat/lon info in the file which lowers usefulness. But it might > be possible to write a partially-automated script to match the > City_Municipal / Province entries to OSM place=town|city and insert a > postal_code= tag. So I have grabbed a copy. I don't think it is a priority > item though as most folks don't think in terms of Philippine post codes to > orientate themselves.
OK mike, thanks! Looking through the excel very swiftly, it seems that each Municipality has one postcode assignment, except for large cities like those in Metro Manila. If we can add municipal boundaries, I think this will be very useful for geocoding applications. AFAIK, the planned import of POIS from rpmap and waypoints also have a postcode tag. So that should be useful too. I'm still waiting the response from the project maintainers. cheers, maning > Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
