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

[mick]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:20:13 +0000
Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> 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 ... ;)
> 
Australia is going the same way in moving to Postal Agents and relocating the remaining Post Offices to obscure, out of the way locations so I doubt there is any formal criteria to define these points. They are becoming 'just another curious folk-way', as evidenced by the lack of 'Zero-Points' in .au since metric conversion.

thanks
mick