I can see my street and its name, but can't get any results when I search with my postcode here. It is a new built property, so takes sometime, but if I want to add/insert my postcode to the correct part of road, how can I do that?
OpenStreetMap
I can see my street and its name, but can't get any results when I search with my postcode here. It is a new built property, so takes sometime, but if I want to add/insert my postcode to the correct part of road, how can I do that?
Discussion
Comment from Pink Duck on 4 January 2011 at 15:25
Postcodes are codes associated with addressable properties, not the road itself. Roads can be considered to fall wholly/partially within postcode areas by the outline shape that is made from the properties. In OSM, there is the "postal_code" tag for rough use on a way. Better would be drawing the outlines from the now-legal Bing aerial imagery and then assigning the addr:* fields, including addr:postcode, from local knowledge.
Comment from EdLoach on 4 January 2011 at 15:48
If Dhaval's location is accurate, he is a little unfortunate in some ways in that both Bing and OS Streetview are too old to show the development.
Looking at it positively though, it's a great opportunity to collect waypoints outside every house in your street along with the associated housenumbers and add that data as nodes to OSM until outlines are available, so that at least for a while where you live OSM is the best map available and you can say that you made it so...
Comment from Dhaval on 4 January 2011 at 21:51
Thank you EdLoach, that youd really be great. Can you please also advise how can I collect waypoints and once done, how to add them to OSM?
Comment from Sanderd17 on 5 January 2011 at 14:21
How to collect gps points depends on what GPS you have: is it a garmin, a smartphone, something else.
Contact me if you have questions. I don't think I will read this again.