Archive for postcodes
Liberal Democrats back campaign to free our postcodes
Welcome news from the blog of Lynne Featherstone (who, apart from being a LibDem MP, is also chair of the party’s Technology Advisory Board):
We need postcodes to be owned by the public – not sold to the public. Postcodes are the basic pre-requisite for allowing services to be developed that support democratic accountability.
It’s an important [...]
Postcode campaign gears up to save popular web services
A range of popular websites, providing useful services such as information on local job vacancies and planning applications, have been closed down following the Royal Mail’s decision to crack down on the use they made of its postcode address database.
As Alex blogged previously:
With postcodes so increasingly important to national life, it’s ridiculous that they are [...]
