[Talk-GB] Postcodes map

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Thu Mar 29 00:46:52 BST 2007


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

The other possible source of CC postcode data that could be merged into
a CC DB would be OpenGuides - from any entry that has both a postcode
and a Lat-Lon value. I can't see how to extract this kind of thing from
OpenGuides - there doesn't seem to be an obvious download link.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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