Posted by Dylan Parry on 11/28/06 10:09

Geoff Berrow wrote:

> Oh if only that were true. I imagine, like road tax, that it just goes
> to the treasury.

Yes, but the difference here is that you would be buying the data from
either Royal Mail or the Ordnance Survey - both of which operate like
private companies (even if they do get public funding). So any money
they charge you is unlikely to leave that company for the treasury.

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