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[ILUG] OT: Open Source Postcode

[ILUG] OT: Open Source Postcode

Ronan Cunniffe ronan at cunniffe.net
Mon Jul 11 16:59:24 IST 2011


Hi all,

This scheme has a fatal non-technical flaw, as the good people of 
Mountbrowne, Co. Galway, (now to be addressed generally by the postcode 
FUCK, and some of whom more precisely located with FUCK-IT and FUCK-ME) 
would like to point out.

(FSCK-ME is a mile or to the south, on the other side of the R339).

Regards,

Ronan

On 11/07/11 16:39, Brendan Minish wrote:
> Bahh, hit send too soon..
>
> > From the looks of the dcenr page on this there looks to be 'no room' for
> anything other than a proprietary solution managed by a corporate
> entity
>
> There would look to be little chance that a nice simple, open and
> royalty free system could meet the tender.
> But it's certainly worth a good shot, even if it only manages to
> 'rattle' the the others.
>
> .brendan
>
> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 12:41 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Ian Spillane wrote:
>>
>>> It will be an awful shame if the government opt for a closed-source
>>> proprietary code that open source programmers and database people
>>> can't freely handle themselves to generate their own location data.
>> With thanks to Dave Malone, this appears to be the place you need to look:
>>
>> 	http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Communications/Postal/Postcodes.htm
>>
>> The "Pre-Qualification Questionnaire" at the end gives contact details  for
>> someone in the department who might be worth contacting.
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>
>



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