[Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

[Chris Hill]

Now that people are tracing buildings from Bing etc addressing is 
getting more widespread, but one awkward area is postcodes. The Open 
data that OS released last year included the Code Point Open dataset 
which has the location of postcode centroids. These can help with adding 
postcodes to addresses.

I have created an overlay from the postcode centroids. You can see it 
here http://codepoint.raggedred.net/ One way to use this is as an 
overlay in an editor. Blackadder has added how to set this up in JOSM on 
the wiki page 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#Code-Point_Open 
It also works in Potlatch 2.

I have only loaded some of the postcode areas so far. You can see these 
on the wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Chillly/codepoint

Please do not just add the centroid to the map. I don't see the value of 
that. I am interested in the experience people gain from using this 
data, for example to add postcodes to an address such as addr:postcode.

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly