[CivicAccess-discuss] UK companies trying to 'Free the Postal Code"

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Sandy Ward wrote:

> With all the copyright stuff going on it is fitting to talk about Postal 
> Codes and the control Canada Post has over them.

   I'm wondering if anyone has got anywhere with discussing this with 
Canada Post.

   With my own investigations for a database to translate postal codes to 
electoral districts I started with Elections Canada who said that they 
would not compete with Statistics Canada who sold the data.  Statistics 
Canada said the data is part of their data liberation for Schools/etc, but 
that NGO/etc would have to pay large fees.

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/search/node/PCFRF

   We could derive the same data by taking electoral district maps which 
are already publicly available 
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=1169 , and 
correlate them with postal code maps if they were made available.  I could 
immagine the PostGIS query to do this (New things to learn), but don't 
have the postal code vector file.

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