<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Regarding postcodes, I placed some postal_code tags on certain roads in the Metro Manila area (specifically Manila, Quezon City & Makati) that you can check via itoworld.com. I hope that this might not hamper your plans, as stated below.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 10/28/08, maning sambale <i><emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] free philippine postcode data<br>To: "talk-ph" <talk-ph@openstreetmap.org><br>Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 7:31 PM<br><br><pre> Where zip / postal codes are widely used, it is useful information is to<br>> build up in OSM for search proximity purposes ... something I am working<br>on<br>> at the moment. "Show me all the
restaurants near zip code 1543"<br>for<br>> example. Even having just one lat/lon tagged reference to zip code 1543<br>can<br>> therefore be very useful.<br>><br>> There is no lat/lon info in the file which lowers usefulness. But it might<br>> be possible to write a partially-automated script to match the<br>> City_Municipal / Province entries to OSM place=town|city and insert a<br>> postal_code= tag. So I have grabbed a copy. I don't think it is a<br>priority<br>> item though as most folks don't think in terms of Philippine post<br>codes to<br>> orientate themselves.<br><br>OK mike, thanks!<br>Looking through the excel very swiftly, it seems that each<br>Municipality has one postcode assignment, except for large cities like<br>those in Metro Manila. If we can add municipal boundaries, I think<br>this will be very useful for geocoding applications.<br><br>AFAIK, the planned import of POIS from rpmap and waypoints also have
a<br>postcode tag. So that should be useful too. I'm still waiting the<br>response from the project maintainers.<br><br>cheers,<br>maning<br><br>> Mike<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> talk-ph mailing list<br>> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org<br>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph<br>><br><br><br>-- <br>|---------|----------------------------------------------------------|<br>| __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda <br>|<br>| '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of<br>all" -N.Branden|<br>| /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ |<br>| | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com|<br>| _)_/LI<br>|---------|----------------------------------------------------------|<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk-ph mailing
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