[OSM-talk] Free the postcode maps

[David Sheldon]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Simon Hewison wrote:
> 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.

I talked to someone with access to a large database of truck movements
about this sort of thing, and the problem was that the "order" often has
the address of a head office or a branch office, and the vehicle drives
to the goods entrance of a store, or somewhere else that is not at the
same postcode, and that this happens far too often to make their data
useful. 

That said, different types of vehicles might generate more useful
information.

David

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