Tom Taylor wrote: > I did some parsing of the PDF, and it seems that of the 114,000 post > boxes in the UK, 50599 seem to have valid postcode data. > > I'm currently geocoding these postcodes using Yahoo's service, and > wondered if the resulting longitudes and latitudes would be of > interest to OSM and could be integrated. I'm not entirely clear on the > licensing of it. Can anyone clarify?
Why not do this all in reverse? FreeThePostcode is great, but it seems to me that there would also be value in a (more complete) postcode set which combined their stuff with data derived from OSM. Basically, you take an address with street and postcode, use the NameFinder to find the street, click on it, and the tool marks that street as having the postcode. (I've been meaning to write this tool for months but not had time.) However, for this to work, you need a big file of addresses covering the UK. Er, hang on a minute, you just obtained one :-) Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
