OpenStreetMap
Following a sharp decline in the amount of new stuff I've mapping this year I've noticed most of my edits are now adding postcodes and addresses to existing POIs.
I was wondering if there are any mobile apps that will let me do this 'in the field'? Currently using a S40 based phone but have a S60 available to me if needed.
Otherwise a mobile site may be on my list of future projects.
As one of my current projects is starting to use this data I'd like to encourage others to start collecting addresses and postcodes for places they visit... :)
Ta, all.
Discussion
Comment from JohnSmith on 18 December 2009 at 18:57
I thought postcodes were supposed to be tagged as boundaries these days, rather than redundantly tagging individual locations?
Comment from davespod on 18 December 2009 at 23:12
This highlights the difference between Australian and UK postcodes. In Australia, as in many countries, one postcode is often associated with one town or one suburb, making it sensible to mark the boundaries. In the UK, there are typically two postcodes _per_street_ in urban areas (usually one for each side of the street), so marking the boundaries would mean a boundary round each side of each street in urban areas. If we had a Free source of postcode boundaries, we could, however, mark the boundaries for the first part of the postcode, which are more akin to Australian postcodes. Sadly, we don't (yet).
Comment from Skippern on 19 December 2009 at 00:19
Brazil is even worse, where you can have different post code on left and right hand side of the road, where a road might change post code when passing into another suburb, some buildings have its own post code etc.
Comment from Teaandkale on 19 December 2009 at 04:07
I was mainly looking at adding postcodes and other addr:* tags, to things like pubs, shops, etc. There are many applications where this sort of data could be of use without dealing with boundaries. Also some where just a small set of postcodes are enough to complete the task.
There are so many postcodes, at least here in the UK, that it's impractical to map the boundaries of each anyway.
Of course, the situation may well be different elsewhere in the world. :)
Comment from JohnSmith on 20 December 2009 at 13:06
Fair enough, and yes postcodes are different in the world, a single postcode in Australia can go from a suburb to areas many many times the size of the UK:
http://maps.bigtincan.com/?layer=00B000000FF
Comment from emj on 22 December 2009 at 13:05
To add POIs I use the beta version of mgmaps , which is a j2me app. Then I save the favorites as KML file convert it to osm, it's not a perfect work flow.. :-) When I get time I'm going to use nutiteqs lib to do a custom Openstreetmap version. Going to look at this sometime after new year, but you are free to do it for me.. :-)
Comment from Teaandkale on 30 December 2009 at 02:38
I'm afraid I won't be able to do it yet as I've actually started on an online editor, partly for the reason of this entry and partly because I've found pubs in OSM that have no name. If I can lower the barrier for people who can supply the names of these places then that's a win, IMO (as long as their information is not based on a copyrighted source, of course).
After that if you've not done it... :)
Comment from Teaandkale on 30 December 2009 at 03:03
I'm afraid I won't be able to do it yet as I've actually started on an online editor, partly for the reason of this entry and partly because I've found pubs in OSM that have no name. If I can lower the barrier for people who can supply the names of these places then that's a win, IMO (as long as their information is not based on a copyrighted source, of course).
After that if you've not done it... :)