[OSM-newbies] postcodes, housenames, speed limits

[stead]

> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:29:00 +0100> From: russ at phillipsuk.org> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] postcodes, housenames, speed limits> > On Thu, April 24, 2008 05:56, Mark Williams wrote:> >> 5.Postcodes, What about postcodes? from what I can tell we're not> >> allowed to save postcodes? If i add postcodes to roads i know as an> >> additional tag, will that be removed?> > The main thing about postcode data, as with any other data, is that it> must have been collected by you. If you know a given street's postcode,> then by all means add it (and get a GPS fix and add that to> FreeThePostcode) but don't take a load of postcodes from your SatNav and> add them!> > There is a postal_code tag, which I've started using for postcodes - this> could obviously be useful for SatNavs and the like. The difficulty I find> is that I'm never sure if an entire street has the same postcode - some> have different postcodes for different sections. That's not an issue for> FreeThePostcode [1], since it stores the postcode for a specific location.> > Russ> > [1] http://www.freethepostcode.org/> Hrmm, well for the newer streets there is no postcode information on my satnav, and for the best part google maps, or anything except royal mail, but if i'm given the address and i read it off the parcel, confirm with the customer that its the correct postcode can i then add it?
 
I know i can't just take them off the satnav, but since i use the satnav with my job, and navigate to streets via postcode (when they are correct) can I add them once i'm at a street if it makes any sense? the problem I have with free the postcode is that I deliver to a lot of rural area's, and the locations are wildly inacurate, the problem being postcodes cover such large areas, if I can mark down the roads which these postcodes cover they could actually be useful, in this regard sat nav's re totally useless as i'm often a mile or so away from my intended destination.
 
Thanks for all the replies guys :) wasn't expecting such quick responses, also my questions have been answered, but is there a page someware that states the terms I should use?, as i've noticed i'm getting different replies on how to do the same thing, and regarding the lanes issue, to me 3 lanes would dictate 3 drivable lanes not the hardshoulder, if this data was used in the future for navigation, it would confuse software, especially on junctions which it could potientially tell you the correct lane to be, it would be telling you to use the hard shoulder all the time, in my opinion
 
I shall have to read through all these and make up a little file with all the definitions i need :)> > _______________________________________________> newbies mailing list> newbies at openstreetmap.org> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
_________________________________________________________________
Be a superhero and win! Play the Iron Man Mashup Game 
http://www.ironmanmashup.co.uk
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/newbies/attachments/20080424/a154fee2/attachment.html>