Changeset 756
- Timestamp:
- Mar 2, 2014, 1:48:20 PM (6 years ago)
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trunk/npemap.org.uk/static/FAQ.html
r740 r756 37 37 <a name="whatIsIt"></a> 38 38 <h3>What is it?</h3> 39 40 <p>There are a lot of applications on websites for being able to tell where 41 people are from their postcode. For example "Where is my nearest 42 B&Q?". <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Unfortunately this data is expensive to licence (a few 43 thousand pounds/year for a website)</span> - It's now under a quite free licence from <a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/">OS OpenData</a>. <a 44 href="http://www.freethepostcode.org">Free the postcode</a> are doing a 45 good job, but it is hard to contribute to their database as you 46 need a GPS, so they have few postcodes.</p> 47 48 <p>Our goal is to collect public domain postcode location data by getting users to locate 49 themselves on a map of the country. They need only give the first part 50 of their postcode, and if we can collect locations for all of these 51 parts then we can create a database that is good enough for many 52 applications. We are also accepting complete postcodes and 'partial' 53 postcodes including the number portion of the second half of the postcode, 54 in order to improve our accuracy. 55 </p> 56 39 <p>This site was originally set up in order to compile a public domain 40 database of postcode locations whilst people look at our old maps. 41 Nowadays, there is a better, more complete set of data in the 42 form of 43 <a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/">OS OpenData</a> 44 so there is less need of separate collection efforts. As a result, the 45 postcode collection parts of this site have now been disabled, but you can 46 still use it to browse some lovely old maps of the British Isles. 47 </p> 48 <p> 49 Some of the later parts of this FAQ still refers to the data sets which 50 can be still be downloaded if not updated. 51 </p> 57 52 58 53 <a name="licence"></a> … … 60 55 61 56 <p>The data will be will be in the public domain; consequently, users 62 submitting data agree to their submission being in the public domain 63 when they enter their postcode.</p> 64 65 66 <a name="junkMail"></a> 67 <h3>Will I get more junk mail if I enter my postcode?</h3> 68 69 <p> 70 No, we are just interested in where the postcode is. We don't collect 71 your name or house number. Please see our <a href="/privacy.html">privacy policy</a>.</p> 72 57 submitting data agreed to their submission being in the public domain 58 when they entered their postcode.</p> 73 59 74 60 <a name="whatMaps"></a> … … 145 131 146 132 <p>Because they are licensed under Creative Commons Share-alike 147 licences, so we wouldn't be able to make ourdata public domain.</p>133 licences, so we wouldn't be able to make the postcode data public domain.</p> 148 134 149 135 <p>There are people who believe that locating a point on a map creates a 150 136 derived work, and hence requires a licence. We don't want to be the first 151 137 to prove them wrong in a court, as that will be pricy.</p> 152 153 154 <a name="freethepostcode"></a>155 <h3>Will this data be imported back into Free the Postcode?</h3>156 157 <p>Probably not directly. We are looking at the best way of presenting158 data from both projects whilst not polluting the Free the Postcode database159 with our lower accuracy data. We are importing Free the Postcode data into160 our database for display, but not re-exporting it currently.</p>161 162 138 163 139 <a name="accuracy"></a> … … 172 148 173 149 174 <a name="houseMissing"></a>175 <h3>My house isn't on a 1950s map</h3>176 177 <p>Find some local landmarks and guess where your house is. This is178 accurate enough for our purposes.</p>179 180 181 150 <a name="pickDecade"></a> 182 151 <h3>How do I view maps from different decades?</h3> … … 202 171 203 172 204 <a name="gps"></a>205 <h3>I know exactly where I am, and what my postcode is</h3>206 207 <p>If you have a GPS, enter your data into <a208 href="http://www.freethepostcode.org">Free the Postcode</a> and make the209 world a better place.</p>210 211 212 173 <a name="islands"></a> 213 174 <h3>I can't seem to find a certain island on your overview map</h3> 214 175 <p>We've put together a list of <a href="islands.html">hard to find 215 176 islands</a>, so you might well be able to find it from there.</p> 216 217 218 <a name="howToUse"></a>219 <h3>So, how do I use it?</h3>220 221 <p>Find your location on our map, click where your postcode is, enter222 the postcode, agreeing to release your data.</p>223 177 224 178 -
trunk/npemap.org.uk/static/index.html
r719 r756 74 74 75 75 <div id="postcodeinfobox"> 76 <p> Whilst looking around, you can tell us about the postcode of where you are 77 looking. We want to collect information about where postcodes are now by 78 finding them on old maps.</p> 79 <p>All you need to do is click on the point in the map and fill in the 80 postcode. Why not add your house, your place of work, and those of your 81 friends and family, to help us build a free postcode database? 82 There is more detail about why we want to do this in 76 <p>Please note that the postcode submission part of this site has now been 77 disabled. For more information please see 83 78 the <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a>.</p> 84 79 </div> -
trunk/npemap.org.uk/static/privacy.html
r289 r756 5 5 6 6 <h3>What data do we collect?</h3> 7 8 <p><em>This privacy policy mainly relates to the collection of postcodes 9 which we are no longer doing.</em></p> 7 10 8 11 <p> Obviously we collect the postcode that you enter and the -
trunk/npemap.org.uk/static/tiles/map.html
r655 r756 21 21 22 22 <div id="theTitle"> 23 <h1>Click on the map to submit postcodes</h1>23 <h1>Click on the map to zoom in</h1> 24 24 </div> 25 25 … … 123 123 </div> 124 124 <div id="map_container" style="float:left"> 125 <!--126 <div id="postcodeinfo">127 <span id="postcode"></span>128 <input type="hidden" id="pcode_id" name="postcode" />129 <input type="text" id="reason" name="reason" />130 <input type="text" id="email" name="email" />131 132 </div>133 -->134 125 <div id="map"> 135 126 <noscript><h2>This site requires Javascript</h2><p>Without javascript you cannot see the maps or contribute data</p></noscript> -
trunk/npemap.org.uk/static/tiles/mapTiles.js
r717 r756 220 220 Math.round((baseNorthing -0 + tileYratio) * zooms[zoomLevel]), 221 221 zoomLevel - 1); 222 } else {223 224 showPostcodeWindow(((baseEasting + tileXratio)*1000), ((baseNorthing +tileYratio)*1000), x, y);225 226 222 } 227 223 }
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