[Talk-GB] Postcodes map

John McKerrell john at mckerrell.net
Wed Mar 28 17:48:30 BST 2007


On 28 Mar 2007, at 17:40, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> 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.

Really I replied to the wrong person here, I was actually wondering  
if Dave could use it for making his map overlays...

John





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