[OSM-talk] ftp bits

[Barry Hunter]

You can in fact download the full list of valid UK postcodes from: 
http://www.geopostcode.com/ukpc2ttn.htm 
look for the 'DOWNLOAD THE FULL POSTCODES LIST WITH NEAR 1.9 MILLION 
RECORDS' link. 

However before some get excited its only the codes themselves you get, 
no other information, such as town or location. 

 Barry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SteveC" <steve at asklater.com>
To: "David Sheldon" <dave at earth.li>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ftp bits


>* @ 19/02/06 05:01:23 PM dave at earth.li wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:42:39PM +0000, SteveC wrote:
>> > freethepostcode could do with being rewritten in to a rails app by
>> > someone. I've made a little stats script:
>> > 
>> > http://www.freethepostcode.org/stats.html
>> 
>> I'm not sure about the stat for "missing" postcodes. 
>> 
>> According to http://bitter.ukcod.org.uk/~chris/postcodeine/ there appear
>> to be no postcodes starting OX2 1, OX2 2, OX2 3 or OX2 4 so the stats
>> saying that there are 5 missing in OX2 appears to be wrong, we are only
>> actually missing OX2 5xx.
>> 
>> Unfortunately there probably isn't a free list of postcodes that don't
>> exist, so I'm not sure what the value of this chart actually is.
> 
> Good point, Guess it's only indicative then.
> 
> If you have any better ideas on how to coordinate things... maybe
> spatially is the way to go. That is, a map with red and green squares a
> km across that are green if they contain a postcode or not.
> 
> have fun,
> 
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
> 
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