It looks like the next UK Quarterly Project will be based on improving address data for town centres using the food hygiene dataset. Why don't we have a push generally on postcodes too, not limiting it to town centres?
Regards Brian On 26 September 2016 at 11:25, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26/09/16 10:19, Owen Boswarva wrote: > >> That could be done but it's not straightforward; you'll get a lot of >> overlapping postcode sectors and sectors with non-contiguous parts. >> GeoLytix produced an open dataset like that some time ago: >> http://blog.geolytix.net/tag/postcode-boundaries/ >> > > In my view, inferring polygons is something that should only be done in > the data consumer, as they involve creating data that cannot be justified > from the input data. > > >> On 26 September 2016 at 09:39, Colin Smale <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> How about deriving polygons for the postcode sector level (XX9 9) >> from the centroid point cloud, and adding the polygons to OSM? I >> don't know how many that would give, but it would be a whole lot >> less than 500k and still at a very usable level. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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