[ILUG] OT: Open Source Postcode

[Ronan Cunniffe]

On 11/07/11 18:42, Ian Spillane wrote:
> Ha Ronan,
>
> I came upon the same problem and have come up with the solution.
> There's no end to the number of odd words that people could object to
> in any language. FUCK-ME is however a bute. The solution, possible due
> to the checksum, is to reverse any objectionable code: The fields
> outside of Mountbrowne, Co. Galway (otherwise FUCK-ME-Y) can be known
> as KCUF-EM-Y and calculations can continue without anyone noticing too
> much.
Alternatively, lose the other three vowels and Y, taking out all 
"words", i.e. make things unpronounceable (odd to have that as a 
virtue....).
Base-30 vs. Base-34 - is the 10% loss of resolution that important?

So, where's FSCK-HD in base-30-land?

Regards,

Ronan
> On 11 July 2011 16:59, Ronan Cunniffe<ronan at cunniffe.net>  wrote:
>> 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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