[Openstreetmap] Re: freeing the postcode database

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Mon Aug 8 23:49:48 BST 2005


[Steve Coast]
> As a little side project to openstreetmap I thought it would be good to
> nail the postcode database problem:
>
> http://www.freethepostcode.org/

Yes.  Too bad it is UK only.

I ran into the need for Norway myself, and started on a map from post
code to geo location.  It is available from
<URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/gis/openstreetmap/pcode-location.txt>.

I've populated it by looking addresses on one of the Norwegian map
services, and storing the location.

> I'm happy to open up the site to places other than the UK, and see
> what other things we can do specifically to nail the postcode
> database.

Great.  Please try to import my list.  I'll be happy to drop the text
version as long as I can export the Norwegian postal code mappings in
a similar format from the web page.





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