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		moring on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We need to liberate the Postcode Address File It seems to me that you can download the postcode list freely: https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/CodePointOpen Something is missing here. If OS already has that data from RM and can make it available freely, why would they need to build another database?

sahmeepee on Aug 24, 2024 [–]

Because the OS data doesn't provide addresses, just locations of the postcodes in coordinate terms, so you can't provide the typical website address lookup.

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