Is this not perhaps the job of a mysociety website, for people to enter their lat-long coordinates and postcode and producing a free geo-location database? This all rides on the earlier post about the actual postcodes being 'public' but the geolocation lookup data being owned. Is that accurate?
2009/10/6 Duncan Parkes <[email protected]> > > Time to start using the wrong postcode on all our letters. If there's > > anyone out there who still uses the post! > > I was thinking I might start using a latlong on my letters instead. > That'll save the post office having to look things up in the database, > and hopefully thus reduce their licencing cost to themselves. > > Duncan > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > >
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