On 14/09/15 21:58, Michael Peel wrote:
On 14 Sep 2015, at 21:43, Lester Caine lester@lsces.co.uk wrote:
On 14/09/15 21:29, Michael Peel wrote:
> I've reworked the Name section and it is making a lot more sense, but >>> I'm still a little stuck with a citation for the post code stuff since >>> linking to the Royal Mail data is a copyright violation. But we can list >>> the name itself as it's under OGL - I believe.
Links to websites aren't copyright violations, so if you have a URL for the name on RM's site then I'd encourage you to add it to the article.
Looks like I hit 'reply' rather than 'reply all' :(
Ah - I hadn't spotted that! Feel free to copy the list back in if you want!
Anyway ... Royal Mail are crafty sods and the only way to get a listing is to search for it from the generic page. http://www3.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode does not allow generated URL's simply to block people skimming the data via code :(
And Google will not search for "Weston-Subedge" ... it always strips the punctuation even if you wrap in double quotes ....
It's best to not use them as a reference, then. Think of people accessing the Wikipedia article in 5 years time, when Royal Mail has changed their websites and it's no longer returning the same search results - they won't be able to verify the information. It's better to point towards a more permanent source of the information in this case.
And since there is not a quotable source ... The information is an impotant element of the problem so I'll leave as is at the moment and see if I can get a back door reference to the same material on the ONS site.
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