Post Box Finder

Posted By Matthew Somerville on 29/09/2009 - 11:11

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Overview

Help locate unlocated postboxes – the Royal Mail supplied a list of every postboxes location, but unfortunately, it did not have useful co-ordinates, only postcodes or sub-postcodes and some textual data. Look up the postboxes near you by entering the first half of your postcode, locate one whose location you know on the map, pick which postbox you’ve located, and submit. The pages also include postbox last collection times, if we know them.

http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/

Dataset Name: Royal Mail Post Boxes
Dataset URL: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
Dataset Provider: Royal Mail
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Social media / mobile uses

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 30/08/2010 - 23:51.

This would be great as an app for iphone/android & symbian
The amount of times I have been in an unknown area and not know where the nearest post box was.

Open Data?

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 19/08/2010 - 16:32.

This wasn't as a result of data being published voluntarily, it was dragged out of Royal Mail kicking and screaming via a Freedom of Information request. The resulting data set was appalling. The Dracos site was needed, not to display the data, which is a simple enough task, but to crowd-source enough data to make the RM dataset even vaguely useful. Nice work Dracos, but hardly a beacon of OpenData from Royal Mail, in fact a model of how to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request and yet supply as little useful data as possible.