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[_] Geocode data licencing

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 17:04:58 BST 2007

On 21/06/07, Darren Beale <bealers at gmail.com> wrote:
> What sort of money would you expect to licence a geocode DB of (full)
> UK postcodes to x/y and lat/long co-ordinates for single site public
> interweb usage?
>
> I ask as a client came to me today in a panic because their current
> postcode data supplier is no longer willing to provide a license for
> the data due to - apparently - a change in the licensing terms
> sometime within the last 12 months. They were told to go speak with
> Ordnance Survey instead.
>
> We didn't build the app, just started supporting it, so am playing
> catch-up. FWIW already discounted pay as you go as we need the full
> dataset locally.

What about http://www.freethepostcode.org/ ?

Tim