CodePoint data was made into tiles by Chilly, which can be used as a background in JOSM when adding house buildings/address data or can be used as a map overlay. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#CodePoint_Tiles
The wiki has lots of pages on postcodes, but sometimes I struggle to find the pages again. Here is one with links to other pages http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_UK_Postcodes On 28 August 2012 10:04, Tom Chance <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 August 2012 00:44, Rob Nickerson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What I have in my mind is to grab each months data release from land >> registry (thus building up a good database of address + postcode), and then >> have some tool to visualise where we can match OSM addresses (without >> postcode) to these land reg addresses (with postcode). > > > I've not looked at the land registry license, but assuming this is legally > OK I think it's very sneaky, nice spot! > > It would have the added advantage that such a database could encourage > people to add addresses in the first place, perhaps by listing all the > first part post codes (SE20, MK40, etc.) giving the percentage of entries > where the post code is attached to the address in OSM (complete) and the > percentage that have no corresponding addresses. > > Nothing like a little friendly competition to spur people on. > > Regards, > Tom > > -- > http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- Gregory [email protected] http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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