[Liverpool] Royal mail petition re postcodes

[Adrian McEwen]

aidan mcguire wrote:
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> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nfppostcodes/
>
> http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/05/ernest-marples-royal-mail-postcodes-legal-threat 
> <http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/05/ernest-marples-royal-mail-postcodes-legal-threat>

If anyone wants to help out in a slightly more practical way, there's 
always the <http://www.freethepostcode.org/> project which is looking 
for people to enter postcodes and locations that they know, in a 
lets-route-round-the-blockage kind of a way.

Liverpool is doing quite well on that so far - the initial aim is to get 
a location for each major part and first digit of minor part of the 
postcode, so for example L1 0xx L1 1xx up to L1 9xx.  Liverpool is top 
of the list so far with L1, L2 and L19 complete, partly because John 
McKerrell and I had a race to see who could map their home postcode area 
first :-)

If anyone wants a J2ME app to use their phone's GPS to make submitting 
postcodes easier, give me a shout - I've not got round to releasing it 
yet, but I wrote one for my N95 8GB, and it should work on any phones 
with built-in GPS and Java.

Adrian.