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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: Sam on October 28, 2006, 12:46:49 PM

Title: Location location location
Post by: Sam on October 28, 2006, 12:46:49 PM
Ive managed to buy OS codepoint for only 2K which gives me the full postzon with 10m accuracy on northing and eastings.

In English that means I can do clever things on google maps that other web developers cant cos they dont have the raw data man !
Title: Location location location
Post by: Mardoni on October 28, 2006, 13:49:42 PM
Nice :)

Time to develop a Logistics subscription service, let smaller companies stick in the address for their deliveries and your service can work out the most efficent route :)

Another money making scam ;)
Title: Location location location
Post by: Serious on October 28, 2006, 14:59:08 PM
Quote from: NimrodAnother money making scam ;)

or a way to print money. Normally there are bits preventing you doing that in the licence.
Title: Location location location
Post by: BigSoy on October 28, 2006, 21:43:08 PM
Quote from: SamIve managed to buy OS codepoint for only 2K which gives me the full postzon with 10m accuracy on northing and eastings.

In English that means I can do clever things on google maps that other web developers cant cos they dont have the raw data man !

Doesnt postzon cost more than that direct from RM?  :?:
Title: Location location location
Post by: Sam on October 28, 2006, 23:02:19 PM
I paid Ã,£350 previously for the full postzon with 100m accuracy. This has 10m accuracy.
Title: Re:Location location location
Post by: BigSoy on October 29, 2006, 10:06:37 AM
Fair enough, mustve been thinking of something else.
Title: Location location location
Post by: Sam on October 29, 2006, 16:27:50 PM
You might be thinking of the one that lets you look up addresses from postcodes.

Or even AddressPoint. Which is each house mapped to an OS ref. Now thats expensive !
Title: Re:Location location location
Post by: BigSoy on October 29, 2006, 16:40:31 PM
We were having a bit of a set-to with one of our suppliers about licences from one of the postcodey-type products from RM in the office on Friday, and that was worth 2-3k a year I think, but dont know which particular thing we were actually trying to buy.