[Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li
Mon Sep 3 13:20:18 BST 2012


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:48:17PM +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> 
> On a more positive note, I am aware that this issue has been raised with
> the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) and am hoping to get some
> form of resolution on this issue soon.

On the other hand, Royal Mail are trialing doing their own GPS surveys of
properties: http://www.royalmail.com/customer-service/pinpoint-positional-data-capture
The cynical amongst us wonder if this is to make the postcode database a
100% Royal Mail product with no danger of it having to be released because
of the opening up of OS data.

s



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