On 19 July 2019 17:58:58 CEST, Devonshire <[email protected]> wrote: > >I know that Robert is sincere in his views but the classic "don't add >data to OSM because it will spoil someone else's enjoyment" always >makes me chuckle. In most parts of the country the idea that the >current cohort of mappers can add accurate address data by hand is pie >in the sky. > >There are certainly issues with adding these postcodes to buildings in >dense town centres but in those areas you can often find postcodes by >other means anyway. I think adding postcodes to residential or rural >areas from these datasets is fine but I personally wouldn't add them >unless I had some on-the-ground knowledge of the area.
I've been thinking about it during my summer holidays (much needed step back). I strongly encourage others to add as many postcodes as they can, both manually and from Code-point open/ONS in low density areas. The latter are the only realistic and legal way of bringing OSM to a state where users of e.g. Maps.me or OsmAnd can expect a search for a postcode to usually work rather than usually fail. This is in my opinion the single most important issue individual British OSM users (who can't or don't want to purchase a Code-point license) are facing now. Having all houses tagged with postcodes, house numbers and street names is of course a noble goal but we are talking about 10M addresses that have yet to be surveyed. In contrast, a single searchable postcode is all most users need for navigation and this information is readily available now. I will keep updating my osm files on Github and support other mappers but I will not do more bulk postcode mapping myself. Having added well over 50k unique postcodes I am happy with the state of Cambridgeshire and surrounding areas. But doing that for the rest of the country would take a lot of effort and frankly speaking I need to readjust my priorities. Best regards, ndrw6 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
