Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2009/9/16 Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org On 16 Sep 2009, at 18:53, Tim Dobson wrote: What do people think? Reminds me of when some of the Windows 2000 code was leaked - if anything the leak was worse than useless, since the open-source projects that could have benefited from it obviously

Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Webster
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:26:55 +0100, you wrote: 2009/9/16 Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org On 16 Sep 2009, at 18:53, Tim Dobson wrote: What do people think? Reminds me of when some of the Windows 2000 code was leaked - if anything the leak was worse than useless, since the open-source

Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
Paul, Yes, I suspect you are technically right. My feelings on the matter as they have always been. It would be good for the country as a whole for this data to be public, rather than being charged for. I have never heard a rational argument for data that is about the public domain not being in

Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-17 Thread Barry Hunter
On 17/09/2009, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Paul, Yes, I suspect you are technically right. My feelings on the matter as they have always been. It would be good for the country as a whole for this data to be public, rather than being charged for. I have never heard a

Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Butterworth
2009/9/17 Barry Hunter ba...@barryhunter.co.uk On 17/09/2009, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Paul, Yes, I suspect you are technically right. My feelings on the matter as they have always been. It would be good for the country as a whole for this data to be public,

[backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Butterworth
I can't not mention this... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/sep/16/wikileaks-postcode-file-free-data -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002

Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-16 Thread Tim Dobson
Brian Butterworth wrote: I can't not mention this... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/sep/16/wikileaks-postcode-file-free-data ...the cat's out of the bag... Various people are speculating though that it isn't actually very useful even if it was properly licenced. It's not

Re: [backstage] Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?

2009-09-16 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 16 Sep 2009, at 18:53, Tim Dobson wrote: What do people think? Reminds me of when some of the Windows 2000 code was leaked - if anything the leak was worse than useless, since the open-source projects that could have benefited from it obviously couldn't look at it without becoming