Tag: pillar boxes

• What’s the king on your postbox?

  

  OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have read the royal cypher on 61,435 UK post boxes. 3,614 still carry Victoria’s VR, 143 the cypher of Edward VIII, and the mix on a town’s streets says something about when it was built.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, OpenStreetMap, post boxes, pillar boxes, royal cypher, street furniture, Royal Mail