On 1/24/06, James Harvard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I guess we'll wait until Google or Yahoo gets them online. :-) We only need to do 1 lookup for the address for each listing and store it in our database so hopefull they'll offer it in the UK like Yahoo Local does for the U.S. Michael -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
