[talk-ph] free philippine postcode data

[Mike Collinson]

At 09:20 AM 28/10/2008, maning sambale wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I found this from my random searching
>
>Postcode of the Philippines:
>http://www.aag.com.ph/products.html
>
>Do we have any use for it in OSM?
>
>The data includes the following information:
>Zip_Code
>Location
>City_Municipal
>Province
>Region

Where zip / postal codes are widely used, it is useful  information is to build up in OSM for search proximity purposes ... something I am working on at the moment.  "Show me all the restaurants near zip code 1543" for example. Even having just one lat/lon tagged reference to zip code 1543 can therefore be very useful.

There is no lat/lon info in the file which lowers usefulness. But it might be possible to write a partially-automated script to match the City_Municipal /  Province entries to OSM place=town|city and insert a postal_code= tag. So I have grabbed a copy.  I don't think it is a priority item though as most folks don't think in terms of Philippine post codes to orientate themselves.


Mike