Dave Stubbs wrote: >Sent: 20 August 2009 5:42 PM >To: Andy Street >Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Postcodes map moribund? > >On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Andy Street<m...@andystreet.me.uk> wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:27 +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ciarán >>> Mooney<general.moo...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > Seen this map before, very cool. Do you use the postcode=* or >>> > add:postcode=* to pull out the areas? >>> > >>> >>> postal_code and addr:postcode taken from either nodes or ways -- they >>> all get turned into points then it creates a giant voronoi diagram and >>> pieces together polygons from continuous cells. >>> >>> There's lots of streets tagged postal_code in the UK (mostly with just >>> the prefix from a street sign) and then recently there's lots of >>> buildings and points tagged with addr:postcode so those are included >>> too. >>> >>> There are layers for data from the NPE and FTP projects too. >>> >>> Last updated in May. >>> >>> Dave >> >> When you find time to fix the map would it be possible to add post boxes >> as an additional data source for the OSM layer? >> > >Yes, good idea. I'll add that.
And perhaps post offices too? Cheers Andy > >Dave > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb