[OSM-talk-ie] eircode question

[Killyfole and District Development Association]

Maybe set-up a website like Free the Postcode in the UK ?  
http://www.freethepostcode.org/  

Once the database gets to critical mass they will hopefully just open the data 
themselves, like the Post Office/Royal Mail were forced to do in the UK.  

Unfortunately, ignoring it and hoping it will go away rarely works. The 
benefits of reliable delivery of goods and services tends to outweigh the 
disadvantages with most people.  These people just want something that works!

For OSM to be useful for the masses, it needs to work with this model too.  
You type in your eircode and it finds your property, simple, no messing about 
trying to find where you want to go.

On Friday 17 Jul 2015 13:01:22 moltonel wrote:
> On 17 July 2015 11:30:55 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> >What better way to ignore than come to the conclusion that the data
> >can't be included in OSM and needs to be removed when it turns up?
> 
> Good point :) If Eircodes can't be collected in a public db then it's a nail
> in Eircode's coffin. If it can, it should be ok to scrape the data to reach
> a usable level of completeness and add some QA for osm.
> 
> Not everybody on osm-ie is on board with the 'let it fail' tactic it seems.
> It'd be great to reach a consensus on what to do with Eircodes in OSM that
> we can post on openstreetmap.ie blog once we have all the info.
> >Right now I just want to check if there are any use restrictions that
> >make the situation clear or if the situation is going to remain fuzzy
> >for now.
> 
> Yep, let's check how fuzzy this is. First person to send a copy of the
> Eircode snailmail wins.