iPhone App Review – iFreeThePostcode (UK Only)
In the UK, the mapping of postcodes to latitude and longitude is controlled by the Post Office who charge you very large sums of money (like several thousand dollars a year) to use it , either commercially or for nion-commercial use. This is the PAF: the Postcode Address file.
Many British tax payers feel that as they paid for this data, they should not be charged for it. The USA for example doesn’t charge for Zip Code to Lat/long mapping. Hence the Free The PostCode campaign was setup. Volunteers use GPS systems to map postcodes to latitude and longitude. It’s been running several years though probably has a while to go until they catch up with the PAF’s 28 million entries 9each accurate to 100M).
Now a Liverpool,UK developer John McKerrell has created a free App to let UK iPhone owners map postcodes to latitude and longitude using their iphone and submit it to the campaign. Just install the App, run it and when accuracy drops below 100M submit it. Easy to use and you can even download the source code that John has published. If you have an iPhone and are visiting the UK, you can also help.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2011 under collaborative, geo, iPhone, review, software.
Tags: app store, iPhone, postcode, review
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