Hi Russ, Somewhere in tbe Osmand forum you should find a link for a postcode player you can download & use. I think it was Harry, one of the main people answering queries who produced it.
Regards Nick my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes! On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 17:12 Russ Phillips via Talk-GB, < [email protected]> wrote: > OsmAnd is what made me think of it. I'm using that for directions a lot > now, and it's common these days to give a postcode to plug into a sat nav, > but they frequently don't work in OsmAnd. > > I was somewhat surprised that it hadn't already been done, and I accept > all the reasons for not doing it. > > I'll look into alternatives. > > Russ > > > On 02/10/2019 15:52, SK53 wrote: > > I really see no point. The data are already present in Nominatim (albeit > perhaps not up-to-date) and search is the ONLY thing that so-called > postcode centroids can help with. DE24 (Sinfin) was imported long ago, see > this overpass query <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/MNZ>. > > What can be done is attempt to assign postcodes to streets, and various > incomplete efforts have been made over the years. Open Data provides full > addresses for around 70% of UK postcodes (principally Companies House, Food > Hygiene & National Register of Social Housing). > > What would be useful is a maintained set of postcode information based on > codepoint open/ONS postcode data/OS Local. The sorts of things which it > would be useful to know are: > > - Is the postcode centroid co-located with others (e.g., delivery > offices, some businesses, blocks of flats) > - Can the postcode be unambiguously assigned to a street & post town? > - Is the post code in use or not (ONS is now obviously 8 years old, > but still potentially useful). Greg's FHRS tracker does appear to indicate > a degree of churn with inner-city postcodes (although some of this will be > inadvertent use of more general rather than specific postcodes by people > filling in the FHRS forms) > - Is a postcode the sole postcode for that street? > > Somewhere I have an old CPO table with some of this data populated. I > think Geolytix had summary info associated with their post code sector > shape files as well. > > Adding addr:postcode to streets which have a single postcode is in my book > fine: numerous LAs put this on street signs (Rushcliffe & Gedling for > sure); it's an intermediate step to adding the addresses to houses Once > the postcodes which obviously belong to a single street are eliminated it's > often easier to work out where the others belong. > > Note that other than for FHRS we have no good source for Northern Ireland > postcodes at all. Equally assignment of rural postcodes is quite a bit > harder than urban ones. In re-reading bits of Chris's blog last night I > came across a post of his > <https://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2017/03/have-you-moved.html> showing that > some postcodes move huge distances between releases. > > Jerry > > PS. The Sinfin postcodes possibly should be removed as they were added > IIRC before Mike Collinson's discussions with OSGB about OS Open Data. > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:44, Russ Phillips via Talk-GB < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering if it would be feasible and advisable to import the UK >> postcode data from OS OpenData Codepoint >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_OpenData#Code-Point_Open> >> . >> >> The licence is OSM compatible. My thinking was that we could create a >> node for each data point and set the addr:postcode tag. This would be >> useful for routing software like OsmAnd, since it would allow a user to >> enter a postcode as a destination. >> >> I'm happy to do the work, but the import guidelines >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> say that imports >> should be discussed on the imports@ list and the appropriate local >> communities, hence this email. >> >> Russ Phillips >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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