Post code data

Post code data

Post code data is one of the most useful PUBLIC datasets. It should have been among the first released, or we should know for sure when this would be available. Thanks.

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what sort of information? how

what sort of information?
how can this information be useful to the public in general?
Maybe to companies looking to bombard us with more useless sales brochures, but no one else

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Post code data is useful in

Post code data is useful in combination with other data for representing it's location.

The main reason it's not here is that it belogns to Royal mail, who sell it.

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Apparently this will be open

Apparently this will be open source from April 2010, not sure how true that is though.

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