If you want to find a place by name including quite samll localities use http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/
This will give you a tile ref. You may need to chop off 2nd & 4th numerical digit (10000m x 10000m) or get four tile set add NE, NW, SE, SW (500m x 500m) depending on what size tiles you are working with. On Tuesday 01 Jun 2010 15:59:51 Philip Stubbs wrote: > On 1 June 2010 15:43, TimSC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to find the tile reference for a given area. I > > have found what I need so far by trial and error, but with 400 tiles > > it can be a bit of a pain. > > > > -- > > Philip Stubbs > > -- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
