[Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
>Sent: 20 August 2009 5:42 PM
>To: Andy Street
>Cc: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund?
>
>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.

And perhaps post offices too?

Cheers

Andy

>
>Dave
>
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