Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Steve Doerr
Thornton Heath was always part of Croydon parish, so you can't look at old maps for a parish boundary. It may correspond to a ward or wards within the London Borough of Croydon, if you can find a source for ward boundaries which is unencumbered by copyright

Re: [Talk-GB] Resgistered places of worship (inc UIDs, postcodes)

2012-09-11 Thread Matt Williams
On 10 September 2012 20:22, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Many places of worship in England and Wales, other than CoE/CoW premises, opt to be included on a government register (though this is not compulsory):

Re: [Talk-GB] Resgistered places of worship (inc UIDs, postcodes)

2012-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 11 September 2012 10:56, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: It's certainly an interesting data set but in it's current for it's hard to use. We would need it as a CSV or similar rather than a PDF. I think you missed and is available in spreadsheet format:

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Chance
On 10 September 2012 22:07, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that in my area (Croydon, S London) a lot of streets POIs are identified by Nominatim with a nearby suburb of Croydon (Thornton Heath) rather than with Croydon town itself. The Nominatim/geocoding guys said

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread David Fisher
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fmwrote: I think most of the postal_code tags on postboxes are just based on the ref. eg if the ref on the box is SE25 29, it is assumed the postbox is in the SE25 postcode, so it is tagged as postal_code=SE25. Craig Yes,

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 11 September 2012 14:22, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: People tend to place great importance on living within a certain postcode, and thus we tend to think of them as defining areas, but they don't really Well, Royal Mail produce and supply, or at least used to, maps showing

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Lester Caine
Andy Mabbett wrote: People tend to place great importance on living within a certain postcode, and thus we tend to think of them as defining areas, but they don't really Well, Royal Mail produce and supply, or at least used to, maps showing postcode districts, so perhaps someone should tell

Re: [Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Chance
On 11 September 2012 14:22, David Fisher djfishe...@gmail.com wrote: @Tom Chance: Interesting. In Southwark, wards are tagged as boundary=administrative rather than boundary=political -- presumably this is why Nominatim picks them up? Oh, interesting, last time I looked there was an admin