[OSM-talk] Free the postcode maps

Simon Hewison simon at zymurgy.org
Tue Jul 4 16:50:06 BST 2006


Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> Looking at the list distributed by FTP, it's obviously a typo - whoever 
> added it missed the 3 off 53. See it in context here
> 
> 53.474080 -2.234340 M1 3BB
> 50.478000 -2.240980 M1 4JY
> 53.475470 -2.242060 M1 5JW
> 53.477075 -2.240910 M1 6ED
> 
> Free The Postcode is a nice idea, but how is it going to be validated, short of running every postcode past the Royal Mail database, which surely breaks the spirit of the idea?

Talking of which, has anyone thought of asking our friends at eCourier if 
they can help? I mean, they probably already have the postcode of a pick-up 
and a delivery, and their GPS traces should pass those locations, with a 
stop of at least a minute.

Again, the data probably needs to be de-personalised/anonymised as even the 
fact that eCourier has a client at a particular postcode is probably 
commercially sensitive to them.

That'll work for London, maybe we need to make friends with other delivery / 
collection organisation like dustmen, milkmen, live organ transplant 
delivery, or whatever, to get better coverage of tracklogs.

-- 
Simon Hewison




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