Ed Avis <e...@...> writes: > For example the following row from ... > gets turned into the following in OSM: > > node with lat=51.5729084, lon=-0.0116965, and tags: > amenity=post_box > ref=E10 18 > postal_code=E10 5AH > addr:street=Capworth Street
I would suggest that you DON'T add these extra two pieces of information, for several reasons, based on the 400+ PB locations that I've surveyed over the last 18 months: 1. The Street name (indeed, streets plural) can be gleaned just by looking at the map. 2. When a road gets renamed (or remodeled), you've have to make sure all the postboxes dependent on that thoroughfare get renamed. 3. The RM file frequently refers to roads that are misspelled, don't exist, or are the "non-obvious" choice where several roads intersect at/near a PB. I've come across e.g. one called "The Crescent" even though the PB is nowhere near that road, but it is near *A* crescent, which is just called XXX road. 4. PBs are not always named after thoroughfares (sometimes PHs, shops, or colloquial names for an area, which would not be relevant on a modern map) Similarly, for Post Codes: 1. Not all boxen have full post codes. 2. Many postboxen have incorrect codes 3. Some have generic codes, such as xxx 1AA, which is usually the address of a PDO 4. Sometimes the postcode comes from a (not very) nearby building. > > It appears to me that adding these two extra tags postal_code and > addr:street (and sometimes addr:housenumber) from the data file should > be okay, but I wanted to check with this list. If these are felt to be > a step too far then I will just add the lat,lon and ref. Yes, just please add the lat/long and ref fields. People don't really care about what the strict postcode or name is for a given PB; they just want to know where it is. If they've already found it on the map, there's nothing to be gained by saying that this box is called "High Street". Adding the last collection times would be an idea, but then this would suffer from needing to be updated and might fall foul of copyright stuff. As I've said, I've collected data (and pictures) for some 400 PB in SGxx and ALxx. These were originally collected for postboxr, but that site has become unmaintained, and I'd rather upload them to a saner platform such as OSM. Should I be uploading them to OSM or to dracos's place, given the questions over the directionality ? What mechanism exists for people doing a mass upload, but only for a small part of the UK's boxen ? How would duplicates be managed ? What do people think ? Richard M Willis [in SG2] > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
