On 5 Jul 2008, at 15:29, Shaun McDonald wrote: > The problem is that you are geocoding using Yahoo's geocoding > services. Which simply isn't compatible with the OSM licence. If you > were to use OSM or free the postcode data for doing the geocoding, > then you would be able to do it.
Agreed, but Free The Postcode simply doesn't contain the density of data required. Until the Postcode Address File is released, I don't see a better way of doing it. > However postcodes are not very accurate, they get you to within a > quarter/half/full street. Again, agreed, but Royal Mail themselves don't hold any more accurate information. > All post boxes in OSM are done more accurate than that. It would be > far better to say, there should be a post box somewhere in this > area, and there isn't one yet. Presenting this in a status page > online would be more useful. Someone done this for the railway > stations. Have you got a URL for this? Out of interest, what is it about Yahoo's geocoding that make it incompatible with OSM? As I understand it, you cannot copyright facts. No doubt it's far more complex than that. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
