[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 25, Issue 62

[Andy Robinson]

At the rate of collection I believe that getting a full set of postal_codes
to make a usable system is going to take too long and that a fall back to
traditional address data is going to be required. Of course if you have
traditional address data its easy for individuals to add a post_code to
them.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 25, Issue 62
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>On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 00:45 +0100, talk-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:36:31 +0100
>> From: "Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM
>> To: "'Thomas Walraet'"
>> <thomas at walraet.com>,    <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>
>> I think postal codes stopped the need to hold a lot of address data.
>> Since
>> we don?t have postal_codes then we may want to use historical address
>> sources instead.
>
>Well, OpenStreetMap might not have post codes itself, but I see no
>reason why it, or applications using it's data, couldn't use Free the
>Postcode data.
>
>One other thing that seems to have been missed in this discussion - not
>all addresses are numbers. Some houses have names instead. It's common
>for such houses to have names and numbers, but there are streets where
>the houses that only have names and no numbers. And just to make it
>really complicated, when I was a postie, there was one street that used
>numbers for part of it's length and names for the remainder.
>
>Russ
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