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09 Jul, 2009

The postcode freed! (well sort of)

Posted by: Pez In: Open Data

Pity the poor postcode, for years, he’s been locked up in a basement at the Royal Mail offices, and only let out if someone pays a humungous fee to let him out.
Well, thanks to the mysterious Ernest Marples, the postcode has been let out of his cell and is free to run about, jump and [...]

With the recent publication of the Digital Britain report and Gordon Brown calling on Tim Berners-Lee to help open up access to government data, there’s been a lot of talk about public organisations opening up data.
Most of this has focused around APIs and linked data (something I’m very passionate about already), but there’s much simpler [...]

16 Mar, 2009

Free OUR data, sign the petition

Posted by: Pez In: Web Development

Just a quick post to get a bit of knowledge out there about this here petition on the Number 10 website.
For years, the Royal Mail (a company which we (being the taxpayer) are the majority shareholders of) have been the sole custodians of something called the PAF (postcode address file), which, amongst other things, links [...]


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