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Re:Localyser - Crowd Sourced Postcode Data by vivek47 on Thursday June 30, 2011 @08:26AM (#2713710)
But ErnestMarples (the website, not the postmaster) says "the Government have released postcode data, and more besides, for free"...?

http://www.ernestmarples.com/

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Re:Localyser - Crowd Sourced Postcode Data by charlesmarshall on Thursday June 30, 2011 @08:52AM (#2713790)
hi, that is postcode to coordinates, the campaign to get the royal mails PAF data for free failed - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/22/postcode-pe...
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Re:Localyser - Crowd Sourced Postcode Data by etherealG on Thursday June 30, 2011 @11:14AM (#2714346)
postcode -> lat/lng is open data already, what this does is postcode -> full address.

each postcode in the UK has multiple addresses, but generally a postcode + street number is unique. this data however is held by Royal Mail, and costs a lot of money to license. we believe this is incorrect and are hoping to crowd source the same data for use for free.

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