On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:41:56 +
Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net 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
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
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Sent: 27 October 2014 01:04
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:41:56 +
Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
Addresses are allocated by Local Authorities, not Royal Mail. I use
the address the LA
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
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
On 27/10/14 01:04, Andy Street wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:41:56 +
Chris Hillo...@raggedred.net 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
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
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 point
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
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Sent: 27 October 2014 13:27
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] addressing (was addr:place)
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
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:27:11 +
Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
We in OSM can do SO much better and we must not use the imaginary,
spurious and wholly wrong concept of Royal Fail's postal town. Postal
towns are not real and have no place in OSM.
Okay, now I'm confused! I know what
On 26/10/14 21:58, Andy Street wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:27:11 +
Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
We in OSM can do SO much better and we must not use the imaginary,
spurious and wholly wrong concept of Royal Fail's postal town. Postal
towns are not real and have no place in OSM.
On 26/10/14 21:58, Andy Street wrote:
We in OSM can do SO much better and we must not use the imaginary,
spurious and wholly wrong concept of Royal Fail's postal town. Postal
towns are not real and have no place in OSM.
Okay, now I'm confused! I know what Royal Mail considers my address to
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:41:56 +
Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net 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 naming new streets
In my local area all addresses within a postcode district share the
same post town.
.. Which is the norm. Wikipedia says :
In a minority of cases a single number can cover two post towns - for
example, the WN8 district includes Wigan and Skelmersdale post towns
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