Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-09-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
[resending as my original reply was inadvertently off-list] On 31 August 2012 12:12, Andrew Mackenzie wrote: > there is another approach, which is to download the data for all companies > in the UK from Companies House. There may be other (open-) databases which include address-postcode pairs;

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] UK Postcodes - Potential data source

2012-09-03 Thread Big Fat Frog
Just my pennysworth, any commercial company company can take this data and sell it on, use it for their own commercial purposes etc. I have two limited companies and can personally attest to the fact that anything on the CH public register does get used for all sorts of nefarious uses. I don'