Re: UK companies trying to 'Free the Postal Code"

Posted by Russell McOrmond-2 on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Copyright-Consultation-tp1740p1757.html

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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