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recent bookmarks from jmWhy Eircode is a shambles, by someone who works in the transport industry2016-01-25T17:55:48+00:00
http://tigercooke.com/blog/2015/07/21/irish-postcodes/
jmWithout having a distinct SORT KEY for a geographically distinct area, a postcode is of no real benefit to any type of transport firm or agency. To take one example, Eircode have used the same sort key, F92, for Arranmore (Donegal’s largest inhabited island) and the north western Donegal mainland. Cill Rónáin, Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands, has the same sort key H91, as Connemara and Galway City. Galway city and the Aran Islands may be in a relatively small geographical area, but keen eyes may have noticed that the Aran Islands are separated from the mainland by a small section of the Atlantic Ocean. Sort codes which ignore clear and obvious boundaries, like seas or oceans, need to be redesigned. In two seconds a [UK] website could tell a Hebridean that his delivery will take 4 days at a cost of fifty quid by using the first three characters of the postcode. The Eircode-using Irish equivalent website would need to lookup a large database to tell an Arranmore resident the cost and time for delivery – and they’d need the full exact code. Any mistake made here, and your estimated delivery time, and cost for delivery will be wrong.
]]>postcodes eircode loc8code fail couriers delivery geodata geocoding galway aran-islandshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a6a2b80e49bc/Code-Point Open2015-07-14T09:54:30+00:00
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/code-point-open.html
jmCode-Point Open is FREE to view, download and use for commercial, educational and personal purposes.
(via Antoin)]]>via:antoin postcodes mapping open-data ordnance-survey uk gb royal-mail mapshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10381a7a94d9/DRI’s Unchanged Position on Eircode2015-01-18T08:22:55+00:00
http://www.digitalrights.ie/dris-position-eircode/
jmdri ireland eircode postcodes privacy data-protection quotes misrepresentationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51343c51c5c8/Group warns of postcode project dangers | Irish Examiner2015-01-15T14:44:22+00:00
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/group-warns-of-postcode-project-dangers-306869.html#.VLd3O9yRtXA.twitter
jm“We have spoken to the National Consumer Agency, logistics companies and Digital Rights Ireland, with which we have had an indepth conversation to see if there is anything in the proposal that might be considered to have an impact on anyone’s privacy. Broadly, they are satisfied with what we are doing,” [Patricia Cronin, head of the Department of Communications’ postcodes division] told the committee.
However in his letter, [DRI's] O’Lachtnain said the group “want to state clearly that we are not at all ‘satisfied’ with the postcode that has been designed or the implementation proposals”.
Some nerve!]]>dri nca privacy patricia-cronin goverment postcodes eircode dpc irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5b56124f2190/Eircode postcodes will cost lives, warn emergency workers2014-10-11T21:05:35+00:00
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/postcodes-will-cost-lives-warn-emergency-workers-290899.html#.VDkohpmYQRU.twitter
jmA group representing frontline emergency staff has warned lives will be lost unless the Government reverses its decision on a new national postcode system due to be rolled out next spring.
John Kidd, chairman of the Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association, said the “mainly random nature” of the Eircode system would mean errors by users would go unnoticed, as well as cause confusion and may be “catastrophic” in terms of sending services to the wrong location.
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Neil McDonnell, general manager of the Freight Transport Association Ireland, said he understood Mr Kidd’s concerns. “Take, for example, two adjacent houses in Glasnevin, Dublin,” said Mr McDonnell. “One could be D11 ZXQ8, the other one D11 67TR. The four-character unique identifier is completely random, with no sequence or algorithm linking one house to the other.”
]]>eircode fail postcodes ireland geo location gps emergencyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:01eae340103d/Postcodes at last but random numbers don’t address efficiency2014-09-04T10:10:29+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/postcodes-at-last-but-random-numbers-don-t-address-efficiency-1.1916668?page=1
jmCritics say the opportunity has been missed to use Ireland’s clean-slate status to produce a technologically innovative postcode system that would be at the cutting edge globally; similar to the competitive leap that was provided when the State switched to a digital phone network in the 1980s, well ahead of most of the world.
Instead, say organisations such as the Freight Transport Association of Ireland (FTAI), the proposed seven-digit format of scrambled letters and numbers is almost useless for a business sector that should most benefit from a proper postcode system: transport and delivery companies, from international giants like FedEx and UPS down to local courier, delivery and service supplier firms.
Because each postcode will reveal the exact address of a home or business, privacy advocates are concerned that online use of postcodes could link many types of internet activity, including potentially sensitive online searches, to a specific household or business.
]]>eircode government fail ireland postcodes location ftai randomhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4794c28f2658/OpenPostCode demolishes the planned "Eircode" postcode system2014-04-28T21:16:28+00:00
http://www.openpostcode.org/
jmpostcodes ireland eircode addressing geocoding mapping maps open-datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f663615cd95d/Eircode2014-04-28T12:51:06+00:00
http://www.eircode.ie/
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