Postcodes freed in 2010, OS to follow..?

This story appeared in the BBC a few days ago, but so far I haven’t had a chance to comment. Basically, the government is going to make the Royal Mail postcode database available for free to those who want it, with the Ordinance survey database to follow. This is a surprising glimmer of light in […]

Marcus Povey

This story appeared in the BBC a few days ago, but so far I haven’t had a chance to comment. Basically, the government is going to make the Royal Mail postcode database available for free to those who want it, with the Ordinance survey database to follow. This is a surprising glimmer of light in […]

Postcodes and the Royal mail

Back in July I gave a talk at Oxford Geek Nights about the Digital Britain report entitled “#DigitalBritain fail” in which I discussed the Digital Britain report and some of it’s many shortcomings. One of the potential courses of action I suggested that people could take was to essentially smile,  say “that’s nice dear” and […]

Marcus Povey

Back in July I gave a talk at Oxford Geek Nights about the Digital Britain report entitled “#DigitalBritain fail” in which I discussed the Digital Britain report and some of it’s many shortcomings. One of the potential courses of action I suggested that people could take was to essentially smile,  say “that’s nice dear” and […]