I've just moved from the UK to Australia, and of all the things I thought I'd miss about the UK, postcodes wasn't high on my list of guesses. Here, a postcode is a 4 digit number. If you're lucky, it has enough granularity to identify your suburb.
So instead, Australia has a highly regularised database for identifying streets and numbers, even to the point of regulating st/ln/av/rd etc.
I think it's a bit unfair to call quantum computing "completely speculative" - there are real quantum computers that you can run programs on today, courtesy of providers like IBM, Microsoft and Amazon - but it'll be a while before they can handle the data volumes necessary for geospatial applications.
Just curious, are these fees a significant source of revenue for the Royal Post? If so, is there a reasonable alternative? Just wondering because I thought I saw something on Twitter about how postal workers over there are being underpaid and the government talking about service cuts.
As someone who moved into a new build a few years ago, you find out quite quickly who is getting monthly, quarterly or annual updates when they still maintain your postcode doesn't exist. I've also used the postcode lookup data, not at household level, with work and there is oddles of useful stuff you can do with that alone.
"the dataset is always changing, as people move house". When anyone moves house, the postcodes of their new house and their old house do not change. So no effect there.
You don't propose how Royal Mail's income stream from the PAF would be replaced.
I don't quite understand this remark: "The fees for the PAF is probably why no enterprising nerd has yet done what we all need, and created an app that will send a push-alert to remind you which coloured bins to take out each week" - here in Dublin we get a text from the bin company every week to say what colour bins to bring out. Can the bin company not construct this alert from their own internal database of mobile telephone numbers? Or is there a legal issue in the way?
I've just moved from the UK to Australia, and of all the things I thought I'd miss about the UK, postcodes wasn't high on my list of guesses. Here, a postcode is a 4 digit number. If you're lucky, it has enough granularity to identify your suburb.
So instead, Australia has a highly regularised database for identifying streets and numbers, even to the point of regulating st/ln/av/rd etc.
Of course, that ain't free either....
Coming to this later through your parking platform post… it seems the Consultation is still underway, open until 16th Dec 2023.
And I consider the OS open data reform @charlesarthur ‘s greatest legacy!
All I can say is: sodding Michael Fallon and his right wing economic excesses.
I think it's a bit unfair to call quantum computing "completely speculative" - there are real quantum computers that you can run programs on today, courtesy of providers like IBM, Microsoft and Amazon - but it'll be a while before they can handle the data volumes necessary for geospatial applications.
Just curious, are these fees a significant source of revenue for the Royal Post? If so, is there a reasonable alternative? Just wondering because I thought I saw something on Twitter about how postal workers over there are being underpaid and the government talking about service cuts.
As someone who moved into a new build a few years ago, you find out quite quickly who is getting monthly, quarterly or annual updates when they still maintain your postcode doesn't exist. I've also used the postcode lookup data, not at household level, with work and there is oddles of useful stuff you can do with that alone.
Does UPRN/AddressBase offer a way forward that bypasses PAF?
"the dataset is always changing, as people move house". When anyone moves house, the postcodes of their new house and their old house do not change. So no effect there.
You don't propose how Royal Mail's income stream from the PAF would be replaced.
I don't quite understand this remark: "The fees for the PAF is probably why no enterprising nerd has yet done what we all need, and created an app that will send a push-alert to remind you which coloured bins to take out each week" - here in Dublin we get a text from the bin company every week to say what colour bins to bring out. Can the bin company not construct this alert from their own internal database of mobile telephone numbers? Or is there a legal issue in the way?