Postcodes are not geospatial data: they are a method of managing the direction and delivery of post.
The National Grid, which can be used to identify locations very precisely, is freely available.
Postcodes are already being widely misused beyond their purpose: when I reported the body of a badger lying on a bridge on an urban road, I was asked if it had a postcode: it receives no mail; and the phrase 'postcode lottery' is often used to suggest a random distribution when the writer actually means just the opposite.
Perhaps you might reconsider whether your misplaced [sic] campaign is useful.
The PAF file is not just about postcodes, it's postcodes and all the addresses within. So OK. Addresses are also misused in situations where a coordinate might be better, but what's your point? That doesn't detract from the fact that PAF is hugely valuable data that a lot of other datasets could link into and build off if it were more open. (The point of the campaign is gone over in more detail in James' other post here https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/i/87223193/unleash-the-nerds )
Postcodes are not geospatial data: they are a method of managing the direction and delivery of post.
The National Grid, which can be used to identify locations very precisely, is freely available.
Postcodes are already being widely misused beyond their purpose: when I reported the body of a badger lying on a bridge on an urban road, I was asked if it had a postcode: it receives no mail; and the phrase 'postcode lottery' is often used to suggest a random distribution when the writer actually means just the opposite.
Perhaps you might reconsider whether your misplaced [sic] campaign is useful.
Postcodes are not geospatial data: they are a method of managing the direction and delivery of post.
The National Grid, which can be used to identify locations very precisely, is freely available.
Postcodes are already being widely misused beyond their purpose: when I reported the body of a badger lying on a bridge on an urban road, I was asked if it had a postcode: it receives no mail; and the phrase 'postcode lottery' is often used to suggest a random distribution when the writer actually means just the opposite.
Perhaps you might reconsider whether your misplaced [sic] campaign is useful.
with best wishes,
James Mackay
SP28656508
The PAF file is not just about postcodes, it's postcodes and all the addresses within. So OK. Addresses are also misused in situations where a coordinate might be better, but what's your point? That doesn't detract from the fact that PAF is hugely valuable data that a lot of other datasets could link into and build off if it were more open. (The point of the campaign is gone over in more detail in James' other post here https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/i/87223193/unleash-the-nerds )
Postcodes are not geospatial data: they are a method of managing the direction and delivery of post.
The National Grid, which can be used to identify locations very precisely, is freely available.
Postcodes are already being widely misused beyond their purpose: when I reported the body of a badger lying on a bridge on an urban road, I was asked if it had a postcode: it receives no mail; and the phrase 'postcode lottery' is often used to suggest a random distribution when the writer actually means just the opposite.
Perhaps you might reconsider whether your misplaced [sic] campaign is useful.
with best wishes,
James Mackay
SP28656508