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Developers working to free postcode data (Guardian Unlimited)

Should postcodes and their match to a particular longitude and latitude – even if that’s approximate – be free? Royal Mail, which owns the copyright to the Postcode Address File (PAF), would point out that it is not: the PAF, in its many forms, generates millions of pounds of revenue for it. (In 2006 it generated £1.58m of profits on revenues of £18.36m, of which £14.9m was from PAF resellers.) …

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