On 14/11/2014, Dave Corley <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding possible privacy issues, I've yet to find someone to explain to > me how a buildings eircode is any different from a buildings address.
That claim sounded like a red herring to me as well, but it's actually very valid. The key difference between textual addresses or openpostcode on one side, eircode on the other is that you can give only as much precision as needed. With eircode, you either give the 1st 3 chars or you give the full double-lat-long-accurate postcode with 7 chars. Apparently eircode devides ireland in 160 3-char areas. That's too large for most business catchment areas, so anybody asking for your postcode will ask for all chars, which is overkill and a privacy issue. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
