[Talk-GB] Searching UK addresses on the osm.org website

2012-03-12 Thread Dan Avis
Hi, Without wishing to descend into a license debate... (I've seen previous posts suggesting that *importing* the postcode database is at least contentious) Is it possible to get the osm.org search box to return results of the full postcode database? The data's been geocoded already, and it

Re: [Talk-GB] Searching UK addresses on the osm.org website

2012-03-12 Thread phil
I believe that the royal mail postcode database is copyright and so importing such data would probably be a no no. Until recently I was a Ramblers Membership srcretary, and the problems caused by postcode allocation of new members, in particular around the county boundary led me to believe

Re: [Talk-GB] Searching UK addresses on the osm.org website

2012-03-12 Thread Gervase Markham
On 12/03/12 11:57, Dan Avis wrote: I'm not talking about importing them, because I understand some people are leery of the potential copyright issues, and because it's not an on the ground source. That's fine; I'm side-stepping that question (hopefully!) and instead asking: Can the osm.org