On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:20:13 +0000 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> 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 ... ;) > Australia is going the same way in moving to Postal Agents and relocating the remaining Post Offices to obscure, out of the way locations so I doubt there is any formal criteria to define these points. They are becoming 'just another curious folk-way', as evidenced by the lack of 'Zero-Points' in .au since metric conversion. thanks mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
