No need for relations.
Just tag each address with addr:postcode or postal_code and all is sorted.
Tag it with addr:postcode as that seems to be the system for now.
And in case you haven't seen it:
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/postcodes/?layers=000FBT0F
this is taken from those two
2009/7/4 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com:
No need for relations.
Just tag each address with addr:postcode or postal_code and all is sorted.
Tag it with addr:postcode as that seems to be the system for now.
And in case you haven't seen it:
Sorry I forgot to add this list in my reply to Dave
On Jul 4, 2009 3:41 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:
2009/7/4 Jack Stri...
No need for relations. Just tag each address with addr:postcode or
postal_code and all is sort...
Well, we need to fix the errors... whether
Jack Stringer wrote:
Sent: 04 July 2009 12:45 PM
To: Dave Stubbs; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Amenity Editing
No need for relations.
Just tag each address with addr:postcode or postal_code and all is
sorted.
Tag it with addr:postcode as that seems to be the system for now
2009/7/4 Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com:
The reson for removing it would help in clarifying which one is to be used.
Which one is that then? :-)
Also for the programmers it saves on having to call 2 tags.
Meh.. took me ten seconds for that map.
If we take the
atitude you suggest
By putting the Postcode in we are supply OSM with the postcode to be
able to give that street a post code, same goes for streets.
Rather than having the postcode in a separate addr:postcode tag for each
building on the street, I would think it would be better to tag the street
to be precise, there are three levels in the postcode are hierarchy,
Area = SN
District = SN13
Postcode = SN13_2PQ
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_the_United_Kingdom#Format
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there are FOUR levels in the UK postcode area hierarchy,
Area = SN
District = SN13
Sector = SN13_2
Postcode = SN13_2PQ
Of course, any system should cope with international variations of
postcode format
I see what you are saying WM but until we get enough nodes with postcodes we
can not see the area covered by it.
If I was to record the postcode for each house in my village I would be able
to draw up a correct map but how to interpret this data is the hard bit
because for a gps device it would
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, WessexMario wrote:
A lowest level postcode (SN13_2PQ) is not unique for a node, as multiple
dwellings will have the same postcode, so this leads to having multiple
tags for what is essentially a single data item, a postcoded area of land.
It should be unique to a way (or
Going by that theory how do you post code 2 farms that are 1mile appart but
have the same postcode and are on different roads?
For the moment I think it make sense to put postcodes on nodes untill we can
get enough data to then know the extent of that post code area. Then we can
that set out to
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote:
Going by that theory how do you post code 2 farms that are 1mile appart but
have the same postcode and are on different roads?
Tag both roads with the same postcode?
that set out to remove the extra data (scripted) and put in the ways but for
now we
2009/7/3 Steve Hill st...@nexusuk.org:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote:
Going by that theory how do you post code 2 farms that are 1mile appart
but
have the same postcode and are on different roads?
Tag both roads with the same postcode?
I think this is where stuff is always
In case you haven't seen it
there is an addressing system which has thought this through [1] and
seems to be used as the de facto standard. My personal experience is
that it is a slow and tedious process which I haven't even finished for
the village where I live but don't mention this to
Streets certainly get postcoded differently on opposite sides of the
street - one just has to look at the street name signs (as used by
Rushcliffe BC) to see that.
Also it's certainly possible where one street has multiple postcodes
that the splits happen in different places on different sides of
Streets certainly get postcoded differently on opposite sides
of the
street - one just has to look at the street name signs (as used
by
Rushcliffe BC) to see that.
Albert Road in Wolverhampton was one of the boundaries between WV6
and WV1, where one side was all WV6 and the other all WV1 (as
As I have mentioned before I am interested in improving the data on
Amenities such as Pubs, Fast Food places. Most of this data can be
found openly on the companies own website so I doubt they will have
issues with us including the data as they want to be found on the
maps. This also works for
Jack Stringer wrote:
As I have mentioned before I am interested in improving the data on
Amenities such as Pubs, Fast Food places. Most of this data can be
found openly on the companies own website so I doubt they will have
issues with us including the data as they want to be found on the
Hi Jack,
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:32:16 +0100, Jack Stringer wrote:
It would be nice to get enough data together that we could start to do
a similar thing to Google with having a popup when you mouse over the
fast_food icon showing you the extra details.
I think it would be good, so two
Not a bad idea. One other thought - we can always pull in data from
Wikipedia and link to pages using the wikipedia= tag:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/External_links#Wikipedia
No point in trying to duplicate this page, though I doubt Wikipedia has an
entry for your
If we get lists of places we are looking for then we can find them on
the map and fill the gaps. It also helps us to see what we are still
missing from the maps. The list below is only a quick list.
Amenities to get data for,
Airports
Ambulance Stations
Banks
Bus Stations
Bus Stops (is there
There is also an issue of keeping the data up to date - having loads of data
in OSM is great, but we run the risk of it going stale if we're not careful.
In that case you might as well let Google win the war when it comes to
maps with data on them. Like I said before with such a large userbase
The last time you brought
this up it was pointed out that web sites have copyright on them and
this is a problem for your plans. Just because you don't like it
doesn't mean you can ignore it. Using copyright data without
permission IS A SHOW-STOPPER.
Please don't continue to ignore the
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