[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.
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
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