Hello Chris, I was wondering why you don't see any value in just adding the postcode centroids to the map?
There are probably 25000+ buildings in my area so it isn't feasible for me to add them all and their addresses in less than a lifetime whereas adding the postcode centroids would surely allow an instant improvement in navigation for many users who are used to tapping a postcode into their satnavs? Kevin On 20 January 2011 18:17, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > Now that people are tracing buildings from Bing etc addressing is getting > more widespread, but one awkward area is postcodes. The Open data that OS > released last year included the Code Point Open dataset which has the > location of postcode centroids. These can help with adding postcodes to > addresses. > > I have created an overlay from the postcode centroids. You can see it here > http://codepoint.raggedred.net/ One way to use this is as an overlay in an > editor. Blackadder has added how to set this up in JOSM on the wiki page > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#Code-Point_OpenIt > also works in Potlatch 2. > > I have only loaded some of the postcode areas so far. You can see these on > the wiki page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Chillly/codepoint > > Please do not just add the centroid to the map. I don't see the value of > that. I am interested in the experience people gain from using this data, > for example to add postcodes to an address such as addr:postcode. > > -- > Cheers, Chris > user: chillly > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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