[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postcodes

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

A follow up on this. Chillly (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chillly) has
rendered tiles with the postcodes on which you can use in JOSM and other
editors. Currently he's loaded Birmingham for us but plans to do the other
areas too. Follow the instructions here to use it:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#Code-Point_Open

Those of us who have been adding postcodes over the last week or so will
drop some hints and tips onto that page soon. 

You can also see Chillly's blog at:
http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2011/01/using-gb-postcodes.html

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) [mailto:ajrlists at gmail.com]
>Sent: 17 January 2011 6:26 PM
>To: Talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Postcodes
>
>If anyone needs a postcode extract for their area (from OS CodePoint) then
>let me have the bbox of the area you are interested in and I'll send you a
gpx
>waypoint file containing all the postcode centroids in your area which you
can
>load into JOSM to refer to when editing. Don't make the area too big as it
will
>slow down JSOM too much. If the area you want is outside Birmingham then
>tell me the first part of the postcode so that I can extract the correct
csv file
>from the CodePoint database.
>
>I'm currently adding all the postcodes to the buildings I've mapped in B72.
>It's not possible to work out from CodePoint where one postcode ends and
>another starts on longer streets but a bit of analysis elsewhere suggests
the
>centroid is in the centre of the set so it should be possible to work out
the
>boundary between them and at worst have a couple of properties which
>need further checking.
>
>Cheers
>
>Andy
>
>
>
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