[Talk-GB] Postcode centroids

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Fri Jan 21 11:28:10 GMT 2011


Chris Hill <osm at ...> writes:

>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.

>Please do not just add the centroid to the map. I don't see the value of 
>that.

I think the big question is whether adding them would help Nominatim resolve
postcode searches.  It seems to have some postcode data already but I don't know
where it gets that from?

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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