On 12/08/2011 16:26, Tom Steinberg wrote:
Ah, yes. Didn't say this explicitly upthread but there are no postcodes to
collect.
Perhaps it's time to auto generate postcodes with nice, short,
memorable codes, based on fully open data held at predictable URLs?
i.e time to introduce postcode the grass roots internet way? If you
could get someone like Amazon to start accepting them, and you'd be
away...
I'm not sure you could actually generate useful *post*codes that way, as
the whole point of postcodes is that they are mapped primarily to the
functional structure of the Post Office rather than geographic locations
- the geographic mapping is merely a side effect of that. What would be
more useful, for locational purposes, would be a human-memorable code
based on actual latitude and longitude and street names. Or even just
latitude and longitude - with the near ubiquity of GPS and online
mapping, you don't need much else to unambiguously identify a location.
Mark
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