On 5 Jul 2008, at 15:49, Tom Taylor wrote: > > 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.
Then it appears that we are going to need to survey them all. At least we have some idea as to when they will be complete. > > >> 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? http://edwardbetts.com/osm/stations.html _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
