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

[Nick Black]

On 9/13/06, Russ Phillips <russ at phillipsuk.org> wrote:
> On 13/09/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't disagree with any of that, but will traditional address data
> get added more quickly? Adding postcodes to FtP is quite a long-winded
> process, but I'm not convinced that adding house number/name
> information to OSM will be that much quicker/easier.

Adding postcodes to FTP is deliberately made a long winded process
because of concerns about copyright violation/legal stuff.   Making a
user confirm each postcode is intended to fulfill the publisher's
obligation to stop copyright violation.

Nick


>
> That said, I don't *object* to people adding address data to OSM.
>
> Russ
>
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