[OSM-talk-ie] Eircode Next steps?

[Gill Weyman]

Hello,Please can you remove me from OSM discussions.Many thanks.Gill

Gill Weyman 



> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:51:42 +0100
> From: davecorley at gmail.com
> To: talk-ie at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Eircode Next steps?
> 
> The size of those polygons would be too large to be of much use to anyone
> for anything I fear.
> 
> I had a play around on the eircode site tonight and it's honestly going to
> be a mess to ever make use of the data especially when it comes to
> apartment buildings where you will have dozens of Eircodes inside it.
> 
> They did well designing it this way, ensures that it will be such a costly
> burden to maintain that it's unlikely to ever be opened up. Future revenues
> guaranteed.
> 
> Dave
> On 14 Jul 2015 22:23, "moltonel" <moltonel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 14 July 2015 18:47:21 GMT+01:00, Colm Moore <colmmoore72 at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> addr:county doesn't seem to be used a lot (only ~600 according to
> > >> taginfo).
> > >
> > >I think part of the reason addr:county (646) is populated so little
> > >compared to addr:city (20404) is that there is a field presented for
> > >city, but not county.
> >
> > More than that, there is no reason to set addr:county anywhere in Ireland,
> > for the same reason that addr:country is not needed: because the countr?y
> > multipolygons cover the whole territory. Adding an addr:country/county/city
> > tag is only usefull for addresses not inside the corresponding MP.
> >
> > Revently, rather than adding addr:city everywhere, I added
> > a city MP around Kilkenny for that reason (I hadn't done that before
> > because there's no official city boundary that i onow of, but an
> > approximation is better than nothing).
> >
> > Concerning Eircode, I wonder about the sanity of attempting to replicate
> > that db in osm by puting addr:postcode on every node (indeed I dont think
> > that eircode is sane to begin with). Is maping only eircode postal districts
> > (as polygons) useful ? It'd be comparatively trivial.
> > --
> > Vincent Dp
> >
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