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From: nick.al
What would suit me is an Android app that allowed me to see what needs to be
fixed in a particular area, so that I could check some things out if I had a
spare half hour in the area…..so Notes, FixMes, Musical Chairs, OSM Inspector
and other GB specific stuff (e.g. post boxes, cycle routes, land
That was the point I was making really. To the uneducated, but knowing that PE
means Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, a casual look at a PE37 postcode doesn't
reveal anything about Swaffham in Norfolk. You need a PAF translation to
understand that.
Cheers
Andy
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From: S
On 27/10/2014 09:24, Andy Robinson wrote:
Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of the
postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance.
No: a postcode alpha prefix will typically cover several post towns.
My parents live in Swaffham in Norfolk but Royal Mail have the
On 27/10/14 10:38, Tom Hughes wrote:
The entire postcode is split (by the space) into the "outward postcode"
and "inward postcode" and the outward postcode combined with the leading
digits from the inward give you a "postal sector".
There is an additional part of the post code, the delivery po
On 27/10/14 10:34, Andy Robinson wrote:
Tom, you are right, so what is the TA or EN in your examples called by RM?
Well according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code#UK the first
two letters define a "postcode area".
The entire postcode is split (by the space) into the "outward post
Tom, you are right, so what is the TA or EN in your examples called by RM?
Cheers
Andy
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From: Tom Hughes [mailto:t...@compton.nu]
Sent: 27 October 2014 10:07
To: Andy Robinson; 'Andy Street'; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: addressing (was addr:place)
On 27/10/1
On 27/10/14 09:24, Andy Robinson wrote:
Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of the
postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance. My parents live in Swaffham in Norfolk
but Royal Mail have them is Cambridgeshire with a PE (Peterborough) postcode.
Not at all. My p
On 27/10/14 01:04, Andy Street wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:41:56 +
Chris Hill wrote:
>Addresses are allocated by Local Authorities, not Royal Mail. I use
>the address the LA recognise, plus the postcode which, AFAIK, Royal
>Mail do issue.
I was aware that LAs have a role in numbering and
On 27/10/14 09:24, Andy Robinson wrote:
> Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of
> the postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance. My parents live in Swaffham in
> Norfolk but Royal Mail have them is Cambridgeshire with a PE (Peterborough)
> postcode.
Not exclusiv
On 27/10/14 01:04, Andy Street wrote:
>> How can you determine the postal town from a survey?
> In my local area all addresses within a postcode district share the
> same post town.
But bare in mind that some roads may well go there several postal towns.
The Uxbridge Road in London comes to mind h
Are the postal towns not the town that is represented by the first part of the
postcode? So CW for Crewe for instance. My parents live in Swaffham in Norfolk
but Royal Mail have them is Cambridgeshire with a PE (Peterborough) postcode.
Cheers
Andy
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From: Andy Street [m
It seems that that the housenumber/name/street/postcode is probably
"non-controversial" - but the town/locality is, because RM have a
specific view on the world.
Has anyone looked at the use cases here? I am guessing that the main use
case is for navigation - you have to go somewhere and you a
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:41:56 +
Chris Hill wrote:
Hello Chris,
>Addresses are allocated by Local Authorities, not Royal Mail. I use the
I never said they were, although I concede it could read like that.
However, some addresses do seem to get mutilated once Royal Mail get
their hands on the
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