Some people do put the postcode on their wheelie bins though (often the only way of working out the house numbers too) On Sep 3, 2012 11:12 PM, "Rob Nickerson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephen Gower wrote: > > >On the other hand, Royal Mail are trialing doing their own GPS surveys of > >properties: > >http://www.royalmail.com/customer-service/pinpoint-positional-data-capture > >The cynical amongst us wonder if this is to make the postcode database a > >100% Royal Mail product with no danger of it having to be released because > >of the opening up of OS data. > > The alternate way of looking at it is that the realise that they can't win in > the long run so are collecting new data to release as their paid for service > when the standard postcode database is opened up. Also as you will know it is > impossible to survey a postcode from the ground (no one puts it on their > door) so this new collection of data still requires their current postcode > data. > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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