It's the Royal Mail. Ordnance Survey, the government mapping agency for the UK, are in on it too.
To read their web site (as I have done a couple of years ago, and just now too) you would think it had never occurred to them that people might want to deploy the data as part of a web site. It's all about licensing the data by the number of 'terminals'. Extraordinary. Their prices are fairly extraordinary too. I've always meant to write and complain to Royal Mail, Ordnance Survey, the RM's independent regulator and anyone else I could think of about this inflated, monopoly pricing which can only be hindering UK businesses from developing localised on-line services. </rant> James Harvard At 4:00 pm -0500 24/1/06, Rhino wrote: >You'd think that the people who run the post office in the UK - British >Telecom?? - would have had a number of enquiries from people who wanted to >match postal codes with latitude and longitude. That would tend to give them a >natural incentive to provide such information, all nicely integrated, possibly >for a fairly affordable price. > >Any idea what would prevent the post office from doing that? > >Rhino -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
