As you mentioned PostCodes and I'd be doing some marketing work based on them earlier in the week, I thought I'd mention:

http://www.npemap...

For anyone that doesn't know about this project, it's one of a few that seek to "free the data" that we (as taxpayers) have paid to collate in the first place. (Maps, postcodes, etc.) Viz Guardian Article http://www.guardi... 

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From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of James

Sent: 25 March 2009 14:32

To: [address removed]

Subject: Re: [entrepreneur-1056] Desk Space for Rent / To be Rented
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:18:02AM -0400, Geoffrey McCaleb wrote:
> The reason why I thought it was a bug, when you search for "Kingston", the

> service asks if you mean Kingston upon Thames, Hull, somewhere in Somerset,

> etc.  
The postcode matching is kind of funky, too. You can't just say 'W1',

for instance, but have to give it a postcode that it

recognises. Trying to guess a valid W1 postcode turns out to be harder

that expected  
J
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  James Aylett
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