[Talk-GB] Royal Mail Pinpoint (Was: UK Postcodes - Potential data source)

[Kev js1982]

Some people do put the postcode on their wheelie bins though (often the
only way of working out the house numbers too)
On Sep 3, 2012 11:12 PM, "Rob Nickerson" <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen Gower wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> The alternate way of looking at it is that the realise that they can't win in the long run so are collecting new data to release as their paid for service when the standard postcode database is opened up. Also as you will know it is impossible to survey a postcode from the ground (no one puts it on their door) so this new collection of data still requires their current postcode data.
>
> Rob
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