2009/9/18 Ian Wills <swani...@gmail.com>: > Tell me about it! Having worked for the post office in my youth, I can tell > you that Postcode boundaries are often idiosyncratic. The boundary > represents an easy way for the postie to walk, not a rational suburb > boundary. In my own case, when I moved into my house 15 years ago it was in > one suburb (sensible) but the council redefined the boundaries to match the > Postcode causing much confusion, including with the council which sent rate > notices with the old property address to the new postcode address.
I once lived in a house where the suburb boundary ran down the middle of the road, from memory the mail was one suburb, yet pizza companies and I think phone companies classified the place in the adjacent suburb and fun was had by all. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au