What I would say to editors of beer magazines

In message , Offramp wrote

It's hard enough getting a location let alone a post code :)

Some publicans think that their pub name alone is enough. Whilst this may work for the more famous (or infamous) pubs in an area it doesn't help if your are in the sticks and trying to build the business from a low base.

The London Drinker has some bad examples: "The White Hart, 1-3 Mile End Road, Whitechapel" No further details given apart from the phone. I know the Whitechapel area pretty well ( I shiould say that I am a psychopath ) and I do NOT know thi spub!

The Star, 17 Church street Godalming Surrey. Not even the start of the post code is given.

Is this like that town that refuses to comply with Railway standard time?

The very worst example is the Wenlock Arms ( although I should say that that name does not appear in ther London Drinker advert - you can see for yourself on page 11 ). They give their postcode as N1. At the end of the advert they write: "Nearest Tube stations are Old Street (exit 1) and Angel. Wenlock Road is off City Road via Windsor Terrace."

Obviously no need for a postcode there, then!

It would be far more useful to use the National Grid Reference; post codes can cover quite a large area in rural areas. Unfortunately the leading brands of sat nav units designed for in car use don't support NGR; I think Garmin do.

In article , Jim Backus writes

Always assuming that the author or information provider can get that right. I have seen a guide where the northing and easting have been transposed and the pair of letters replaced with OS, this placed a Devonshire pub somewhere in the North Sea

There is a rude method of remembering which comes first with your easting and northing.

I assumed it was one of those peculiar CAMRA GBG Rules that you drop the 2 letters in preference to "OS" to indicate Ordnance Survey.

The OS bit is so that you know it's an OS reference.

It's OK to drop the letters since these identify which 100kmx100km square the coordinates refer to: you already know roughly where the location is based on information from the GBG.

-- Sven

In article , Brian Waine writes

There is a polite one too; in the door (eastings are the horizontals) and up the stairs (the northings).

Roy.

Some folk give the Landranger sheet number: Sheet 12 345 678

But IF your satnav does OSGB co-ordinates you will need to know the grid letters to enter them. The best way of writing a grid reference is to give it in full as either OS XY 123 456 or Grid Ref XY 123 456.

In article , Nathaniel Savage writes

It was the GBG, I think the pub was the Duke of York at Iddesleigh, and 'catamiting' the NGR was idiotic to say the lest.

Of course you should be able to deduce the location from the other published information, but why corrupt it, besides my GPS use lat/long or grid ref. not county and a 'catamited' NGR.