Hello,Please can you remove me from OSM discussions.Many thanks.Gill Gill Weyman
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:51:42 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Eircode Next steps? > > The size of those polygons would be too large to be of much use to anyone > for anything I fear. > > I had a play around on the eircode site tonight and it's honestly going to > be a mess to ever make use of the data especially when it comes to > apartment buildings where you will have dozens of Eircodes inside it. > > They did well designing it this way, ensures that it will be such a costly > burden to maintain that it's unlikely to ever be opened up. Future revenues > guaranteed. > > Dave > On 14 Jul 2015 22:23, "moltonel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 14 July 2015 18:47:21 GMT+01:00, Colm Moore <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> addr:county doesn't seem to be used a lot (only ~600 according to > > >> taginfo). > > > > > >I think part of the reason addr:county (646) is populated so little > > >compared to addr:city (20404) is that there is a field presented for > > >city, but not county. > > > > More than that, there is no reason to set addr:county anywhere in Ireland, > > for the same reason that addr:country is not needed: because the countr?y > > multipolygons cover the whole territory. Adding an addr:country/county/city > > tag is only usefull for addresses not inside the corresponding MP. > > > > Revently, rather than adding addr:city everywhere, I added > > a city MP around Kilkenny for that reason (I hadn't done that before > > because there's no official city boundary that i onow of, but an > > approximation is better than nothing). > > > > Concerning Eircode, I wonder about the sanity of attempting to replicate > > that db in osm by puting addr:postcode on every node (indeed I dont think > > that eircode is sane to begin with). Is maping only eircode postal districts > > (as polygons) useful ? It'd be comparatively trivial. > > -- > > Vincent Dp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ie mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
