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CodePoint Open has been freely available for a number of years. It doesn't include delivery endpoints but for geolocating English, Scottish and Welsh (but, alas
by petepete 12y ago
CodePoint Open has been freely available for a number of years. It doesn't include delivery endpoints but for geolocating English, Scottish and Welsh (but, alas, not Northern Irish) postcodes it's fine.
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/code-point-open.html http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/prod...
- nly 12y agoUnfortunately we lost the postcode database as a public asset in 2013 when the UK government sold off Royal Mail[0], despite the database being compiled at huge cost to the tax payer. This is a real shame as people had to campaign for years before the data was made freely available to begin with.[1] Hopefully though, as long as the government still holds a large stake, we'll at least have Code Point. The Royal Mail also offer some developer options[2] [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26605375 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26605375 [1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/22/free-our-data http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/22/free-our-d... [2] http://www.poweredbypaf.com/developer/ http://www.poweredbypaf.com/developer/