[Liverpool] Royal mail petition re postcodes

[Alan Pope]

I would be interested if the app worked on my N82

On 10/7/09, Adrian McEwen <adrian at mcqn.net> wrote:
> aidan mcguire wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>
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