[OSM-talk] Post code areas

[John Smith]

On 2 April 2010 08:34, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> We do have post code boundaries running together with administrative
> boundaries sometimes, or running along a road. In these cases I'd expect
> the post code area multipolygon to use these existing OSM features
> (provided they exist).

After creating thousands of postcode relations I've come to realise
why it's such a bad idea to share meta information like boundaries and
phsyical information, especially when one or the other or both change
as it's a lot more work updating things if they aren't independent of
each other.