2009/10/7 Feargal Hogan <[email protected]>

>  >  If that functionality could be worked into a different, much more
> widely used app though,
>  >  it'd be much more likely to fill the database of freed postcodes in a
> reasonable length of time.
> >  Question is, which app?
>
> I  suggested to Steve Coast some time ago that OSM (it was
> pre-CloudMade) should look at developing teaching aids and programs
> for schools in order to increase usage and coverage of OSM data.
>
> A similar approach to post codes might be fruitful.
>
> If 10% of the schoolkids in England plotted their postcode on NPE then we'd
> all be quids in.
>

Working with the Scouts or Girl Guiding UK could have a similar effect - if
you can get past paranoia about child protection problems with asking
children to enter their postcode and location on a public website, of
course.

-- 
Richard
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