On 03/28/2015 12:21 PM, Yogesh योगि wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2015 01:16 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: >> There is a lot of pincode data for major towns and villages in India >> hidden in the postal_code tag like this >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/340748436 >> >> Most of this data comes from the AND import in 2008: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AND_Data >> >> Yesterday, I decided to extract the nodes with the postal_code tag and >> make a pincode+post office map. The result is available here to >> explore: http://goo.gl/MbPW7p > amazing map..! :) >> This already looks like a very useful dataset to analyze pincode >> patterns and the postal network. Wonder if India Post has something >> like this internally. >> > Although generally we see most of the towns/cities pincodes start with > *001, I can also see few of them *000. > > >
Arun, wonderful. Since, initially the specific number may not matter, why not devide the areas into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, --- 8. this way the distribution becomes very clear. I completely agree that this dataset is very useful and we should try to create a layer on OSM. btw, since postal codes are common in other parts of the world, can you point me to other visualizations of postal codes? -- GN _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
