Tom Hughes [mailto:t...@compton.nu] wrote: >Sent: 01 April 2010 3:06 PM >To: Kai Krueger >Cc: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists); 'talk-gb' >Subject: Re: Ordnance Survey > >On 01/04/10 14:42, Kai Krueger wrote: > >> Perhaps even easier and a bigger win, would be to import the postcode >> data. It is "only" points anyway, so many of the aspects making data >> imports hard, such as connectivity and duplication, don't apply as much >> here. Furthermore, given postcodes are unique identifiers, it would be >> very easy to spot which (full) postcodes are already in the database and >> only import those that aren't yet mentioned. > >Are random points that just mark postcodes appropriate? I know people >have in the past added so called "postcode centroid" points but I have >tended to remove those when I come across them.
Likewise, You can't possibly verify them. For those thinking about all of this please refer to add add to the wiki page at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata Cheers Andy > >Tom > >-- >Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) >http://compton.nu/ > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2782 - Release Date: 03/31/10 >19:32:00 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
