[OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

kenneth gonsalves lawgon at thenilgiris.com
Fri Feb 24 09:39:45 GMT 2012


On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 09:20 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> kenneth gonsalves wrote:
> >> Can some one advise me of the official policy for locating the
> centre
> >> >  of towns in the UK, i.e. the spot on the map for a point
> representing
> >> >  the town and used as the Zero Point for measuring distances to
> other
> >> >  towns.
> > in India it is usually the head post office.
> 
> In the UK nowadays you will be lucky to find a post office at
> all ... ;) 

our post offices have very little to do with letters nowadays. Although
most of them have vanished, localities are still centered on where the
post office was.
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves




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