[Liverpool] Royal mail petition re postcodes
Bob Ham
rah at bash.sh
Wed Oct 7 14:34:42 UTC 2009
I tried this on my E71. I keep getting "There was a problem with your
submission" after every retry.
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 12:39 +0100, Adrian McEwen wrote:
> It should work with any phone that supports JSR-179, and from a quick
> web search it looks like the N82 should...
>
> I've stuck it up at <http://www.mcqn.net/J2METhePostcode/> so feel free
> to give it a try, and I'd be interested to hear how you (or anyone else)
> get on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian.
>
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > 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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Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>
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