[Openstreetmap] Postcodes

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:55:17PM +0100, Tom Carden wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:11:15PM +0100, Tom Carden wrote:
> >>It's great that it's there, but can we use it for OpenStreetMap?  My 
> >>instinct is no, because all the possible sources are under copyright and 
> >>it must have been scraped from somewhere.
> >Or it might have been compiled in the same way as my openpostcodes was,
> Is your openpostcodes database available anywhere?

No ...

> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=openpostcodes
> "Your search - openpostcodes - did not match any documents."

... because I deleted it after getting annoyed at people.

> I assume that for whatever reason, it didn't work?  What can be learnt 
> from the way you went about it?  Anything to avoid?

People.  Avoid people.

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David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information

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