[Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

[Dave Stubbs]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Andy Street<mail at andystreet.me.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:27 +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ciarán
>> Mooney<general.mooney at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Seen this map before, very cool. Do you use the postcode=* or
>> > add:postcode=* to pull out the areas?
>> >
>>
>> postal_code and addr:postcode taken from either nodes or ways -- they
>> all get turned into points then it creates a giant voronoi diagram and
>> pieces together polygons from continuous cells.
>>
>> There's lots of streets tagged postal_code in the UK (mostly with just
>> the prefix from a street sign) and then recently there's lots of
>> buildings and points tagged with addr:postcode so those are included
>> too.
>>
>> There are layers for data from the NPE and FTP projects too.
>>
>> Last updated in May.
>>
>> Dave
>
> When you find time to fix the map would it be possible to add post boxes
> as an additional data source for the OSM layer?
>

Yes, good idea. I'll add that.

Dave