[Talk-GB] Postcodes map

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Wed Mar 28 17:40:39 BST 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:38:42PM +0100, John McKerrell wrote:

> Agreed, this is really nice. Do you think you could pull in the OSM  
> database as an alternative source of postcode data? I'm not sure if  
> many others are doing it but I've been entering the first half of a  
> postcode for as many roads as possible so that could really improve  
> Liverpool's coverage. I notice one area nearby is missing from your  
> map at the moment as there were no roads there when the NPE map was  
> made!

Nope; as per
http://www.npemap.org.uk/FAQ.html#openstreetmap
this would taint our data. Sad but true.

Dominic.

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