[OSM-dev] Programatic reconstruction of postal code areas

[Colin Smale]

No need to pick nits Martin, you know what I mean. Any lat/lon
associated with a non-geographic postcode is arbitrary and volatile. It
is not needed for delivery purposes - only the code itself is used. It
can be "moved" to some other location, possibly a long distance away, in
a way that is not possible with a normal postcode. In the same way as a
mobile or service (0800 etc) phone number might have a "lat/lon"
representing the current home address of its "user", but that is not the
same as the lat/lon of a fixed line. 

On 2017-03-29 13:32, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 2017-03-29 12:14 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:
> 
>> There are also in some countries "non-geographic postal codes" - things like reply numbers and PO Boxes.
> 
> they are geographic as well, just that their place is at the post box and not at the owner of that box... ;-)
> 
> Cheers, 
> Martin
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