[Talk-GB] Wildly inaccurate postcode

[Andy Mabbett]

By which I mean Six Ways, Aston, on the A34.

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On 25 Jan 2018 16:24, "Andy Mabbett" <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> Aston is B6.
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> Andy Mabbett
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> On 25 Jan 2018 12:48, "Stuart Reynolds" <stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> If you search for B68 8RH on OSM (https://www.openstreetmap.org
>> /search?query=B68%208RH#map=18/52.48861/-2.00776), you get two options.
>> The first is from NPEMap/FreeThePostcode where the result returned is “B68
>> 8**”. This is located at Six Ways on the A34 in the centre of Birmingham.
>> The other option is from Nominatim, and places the full postcode on Edward
>> Street in Langley Green, rather a long way to the west.
>>
>> Now I know that B68 8** is a merger of all the B68 8** postcodes, but I
>> don’t believe that those are so widely spaced as to have a nominal centre
>> in the centre of Birmingham with outliers as far away as Langley Green.
>>
>> Who do we need to speak to at FreeThePostcode to get it fixed? Does
>> anyone have any contacts?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>
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