Posted by Lester Caine on 01/14/05 01:53

Symbulos Partners wrote:

> Lester Caine wrote:
>
>>Expensive. There are a few postcode management sites that provide
>>positional data against the post code, but they all cost quite a bit of
>>money. We are working on a cut down version for key areas, with a rough
>>entry for the first part for all post codes, with a few that people will
>>provide fine detail for their own area later.
>
> Interesting. Is it an open project?

It will be, but bandwidth is a bit low at present. It will be moving to
the Firebird Data Archive at some point.
I'll be working on a first cut of the 'areas' table tomorrow.

>>http://www.spanner.org/postcodes/ is something that is already available.
>
> I have tried to connect, but it does not work.

It was - I grabbed a download earlier to see if they have any better
data that us ;) but have not had a chance to look at it yet :(

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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services

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