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

Russell McOrmond russell at flora.ca
Wed Sep 2 13:10:10 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Sandy Ward wrote:

> I wondering, if a bunch of people crowd sourced postal code bounds would
> that be able to stay public or would Canada Post shut it down?

   A related question is how often these change.  It would be interesting 
if this data could end up in something like OpenStreetMap (which has far 
more than just streets in it).

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