On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 09:20 +0000, Lester Caine wrote: > kenneth gonsalves wrote: > >> Can some one advise me of the official policy for locating the > centre > >> > of towns in the UK, i.e. the spot on the map for a point > representing > >> > the town and used as the Zero Point for measuring distances to > other > >> > towns. > > in India it is usually the head post office. > > In the UK nowadays you will be lucky to find a post office at > all ... ;)
our post offices have very little to do with letters nowadays. Although most of them have vanished, localities are still centered on where the post office was. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk