On Oct 20, 6:28 pm, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wasn't it Merrows who wrote:
>
> >I think that is completely absurd. If that is
> >saleable, I will offer that service myself after writing my own
> >software and getting the Royal Mail license.
>
> From my reading of the Royal Mail postcode licences, there has to be a
> separate licence for each client on whose websites the information gets
> displayed. They don't offer a universal redistribution licence.
>
> That's the whole problem. If the Royal Mail did offer a universal
> licence, Google would be able to buy one and redistribute the
> information via the geocoder.
They (resellers) get around that by using on server to host all
requests and users use that service via embedded requests. They even
charge by the click (query).
The issue is getting the OS data (not RM data) and then solving or
finding the solutions to the complex integration for the distance
travelled on a curve and then optimsation of the distances, which
involves using an mathematical optimisation analysis (or just working
out all routes and taking the best - very CPU intensive). They are all
solved problems.
Still, a business model is waiting to be picked up here.
>
> --http://econym.org.uk/gmap
> The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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