On 09/11/2018 09:38, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 09/11/2018 09:09, Phoenix830 wrote:
I want to add postcodes but I am aware of issues with this being
copyrighted material.
I maintain a GB postcode overlay, based on the Codepoint Open datasets.
This was last updated using the August 2018 data. I expect another
update shortly. You can see postcodes on a map I provide or use the
overlay tiles in your favourite editor. More details can be found here:
https://codepoint.raggedred.net/ .
I don't agree with either adding the postcode centroids themselves to
OSM, nor adding postcodes to roads. They are all about delivery points
not roads. If I find postcode centroids in OSM I routinely delete them.
There are roughly 1.7 million postcodes in GB (the Northern Ireland
postcodes are not released as opendata). I find that new postcodes are
created early in the development cycle of new building developments so a
new postcode exists often before buildings have even been started to be
built.
If you find any problems please let me know.
I also maintain a postcode layer based on the Office of National
Statistics OGL postcode data (ONSPD). There is currently a problem with
the way the tiles are generated, which I'm addressing. I believe
Codepoint Open and ONSPD are pretty much identical with the current
postcodes, but there is much more historical data in the ONSPD data.
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cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)
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