[Talk-in] Pincode Boundaries on OpenStreetMap for India

[Devdatta Tengshe]

Hi Shravan,
What data source would you be using for creating these boundaries?

As far as I know, no Authoritative Boundaries exist. In fact I'll go to the
extent of saying that you cannot have boundaries, because that supposes,
that the entire country is completely covered by mutually exclusive
pin-codes, which isn't true. Here is an article which also has a similar
position: http://www.georeference.org/doc/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm

When people talk about pincode polygons, the real question which people are
trying to answer is 'which post-office services a given location?', and
there are ways to approximately answer that;

That could be answered by mapping post-offices and their pincodes, and then
trying to figure out which area is served by a particular post-office.

Anyway, that was my opinion. I'll like to hear what other people have to
say.


Regards,
Devdatta

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:33 PM, shravan <shravan.shah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am interested in creating pincode boundaries for India. I think it is
> possible to use OpenStreetMap for creating these boundaries
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpostal_code>.
>
> How about we create a dedicated task to map pincode boundaries in India.
>
> Any suggestions on how this can be initiated.
>
> Thanks,
> Shravan <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/shravan91>
>
>
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