[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

[Alison Smith]

Hi 
Sorry to miss the social meet last night hoping to be at next one.

I think it was at local gov camp recently someone mentioned that Royal Mail were documenting not only every post box but also the location of letterboxes on every house ...

With scraperwiki could link that to what postoffices have disabled access http://pola.directenquiries.com/defaultPOL.aspx although it is questionable about how accurate it is as saying for example the Birmingham branch says it has wheelchair access doesn't account for the gradient outsides such as the main one in Birmingham.
Birmingham Branch
1 Pinfold Street
Birmingham
B2 4AA

It says parking within 50 meters but no mention of uphill gradient that you then have to go up to top of Pinfold Street and round down Hill Street negociating a steep hill to get the wheelchair accessible entrance  in ironically named Hill Street (Pinfold Street has steep flight of steps into building)
cheers,
Alison

On 3 Aug 2012, at 11:37, Andy Robinson wrote:

What licence is the data under?
 
Cheers
Andy
 
From: Stuart Harrison [mailto:pezholio at gmail.com] 
Sent: 03 August 2012 11:26
To: talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Postboxes

 
Hi all,
 
Good to see those who came to the social in Coleshill last night. As I mentioned, I've got the locations of all the postboxes and post offices in the UK (taken from this FOI request) in Scraperwiki here:
 
https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/uk_postboxes/
 
(Ignore what it says about the error, all the data is there). If you're not familiar with Scraperwiki, you can query the data and get it back in a variety of formats by clicking 'Explore with API'. It's basically SQL, so if you know what you're doing with SQL, then you should be good.
 
If anyone wants any pointers, let me know. Will be interested to see what people do with it!
 
Cheers
 
Stuart
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