On 3 April 2015 at 16:49, ael <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:43:35PM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: >> >> For anyone interested in mapping Royal Mail Post Boxes, or Post Office >> Ltd Post Office branches, you may find the tools I run at >> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ useful. Amongst other things, > > This seems to be quite misleading because it requires ref keys. > I looked at my local area, and found OSM had "0%" coverage.
You're right to some extent -- the progress maps at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/progress/ do only count boxes with a ref=* key containing the right box number. (This is made clear in the text below the map on each page.) In theory you could try matching boxes based on geographic proximity as well. The other post box maps I have at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/2/map.html attempt to do this. However, it's a bit more difficult and prone to errors because some of the Royal Mail locations are not very accurate (and some are missing altogether) and there are also difficulties when two or more boxes are located near to each other. In any case, I think it's a good thing to record the box numbers in OSM. As well as making progress tracking easier, it will also help OSM data to be linked more easily to third-party datasets. For instance, the Royal Mail list probably contains better collection times information than we have in OSM. So e.g. someone wanting to create an app to show post box information would have an easier time of combining the two sources. Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
