Hi Aidan If you were to do this then two things you should consider:
1. only tag closed ways where tag is building=xxxxxx AFAIK water and woods and gardendens etxc don't have postcodes 2. how to treat buildings where there is already a postcode and if correct/incorrect Regards Brian On 13 January 2013 15:21, Aidan McGinley <[email protected]>wrote: > Been toying with some ideas for how to use the ONS Postcode data[1]. One > idea that I have been exploring is to check if the value for the centre of > the postcode is inside a closed way, and if so then tag that way with the > appropriate addr:postcode. I mocked up a script to check this using the > overpass API. Some sample output is in the attached link [2]. Essentially > the output shows the postcode and the associated way or ways that enclose > it if more than one. I've excluded ways tagged landuse=*. The script is > pretty inefficient at the moment, and needs to be optimised, but before I > do that I wanted to check with the wider community that this is a viable > approach, and if so the best way to do the import. > > Worth noting that if the data were imported, then ways that map to > multiple postcodes would need to be excluded, as discussed previously on > the mailing list[3] > > [1] > http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/products/postcode-directories/-nspp-/index.html > [2] http://paste.ubuntu.com/1527642/ > [3] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-January/014336.html > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
_______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
