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Postcodes already?

  • 15-12-2010 01:30PM
    #1
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone know anything about this sign on the corner at Westmoreland Street?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tearbringer/5263293906/

    I knew postcodes were planned but this doesn't seem like a 'postal code'....and then there is the Garmin sponsorship.....

    There are also some at at the corner of Dorset and Frederick Sts.


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  • #2
    AntiMatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭AntiMatter


    Welcome to the New World Order.

    Jim was right, after all.


  • #3
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    so garmin are taking over you say?
    i for one welcome our new satellite navigational overlords.
    give-a give-a give-a garmin


  • #4
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,819 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Is it advertising for the garmin loc8 code system. It is very good and can locate any particuar house in the country.


  • #5
    Fart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    Haha... Fisting Street.


  • #6
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭positron


    Rest of the world has post codes for donkeys years really, and if the system here wasn't clever enough to figure out how useful these are, I am glad loc8 is doing this now, I just hope this gets more popular.


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  • #7
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Can people not just use the address anymore?


  • #8
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Since the summer.
    A completely new postcode system for all Ireland was launched in Dublin today, with support from Garmin and Enterprise Ireland.

    Developed by Cork-based company Loc8 Code Ltd, the code system allows anyone to find their own property, location, service or point on a map and to have that position turned into an eight character code. This code can be used as a reference for others or to allow the specified address to be located directly on the Loc8code.com website.

    The codes are generated based on longitude and latitude, but an algorithm which generates the final code takes the difficulty in handling coordinates out of the hands of users, where confusion can arise.

    Read more: http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=15318#ixzz18BRpHdiu


  • #9
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    But there's already a postcode on that sign.

    At the end.

    2.


  • #10
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭positron


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Can people not just use the address anymore?

    There must be plenty of other good reasons if many people thought about this some 70 years ago, and has been using it ever since?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code#History
    History

    Postal codes were first introduced in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in December 1932,[1] but the system was abandoned in 1939. The next country to introduce postal codes was Germany in 1941,[2] followed by Argentina in 1958, the United Kingdom in 1959,[3] the United States in 1963[4] and Switzerland in 1964.[5]


  • #11
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Thanks for that. So its a sat nav based code. Was thinking that it seemed a bit complex for a postcode........


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  • #12
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    ffs, what wrong with the one we have now? Its easy. Dublin 1. grand i know where that is 66fdknlkm57687. Oh grand, thats made things simpler.

    It like when we moved to the modern car regs in 86 or 87. Year-county-order registered. It was a big 'duh, why havent we been doing this all along'. and its regulary complimented by particulary boring visitors of how sensible it is.


  • #13
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Wow, those are rather lengthy postcodes. Most of the world's countries make do with around 5-6 characters...

    Why would Ireland need 8 characters for? The country isn't THAT big!


  • #14
    deirdre_dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭deirdre_dub


    mickdw wrote: »
    Is it advertising for the garmin loc8 code system. It is very good and can locate any particuar house in the country.
    It is, by the looks of it, someone trying to create, then corner, a market in these "postcodes". Basically someone has figured out a simple mathematical algorithm of translating latitude and longitude into these "codes". They are patenting the algorithm, and they are now trying to make their codes "official".

    Have a look at the licensing page - http://www.myloc8ion.com/licensing

    The good news is that I suspect/hope their entire business can be destroyed by someone coming up with a similar system, and releasing the details and algorithms for free.


  • #15
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin

    I hope that whoever wrote that song, dies a long painful death.


  • #16
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin

    I hope that whoever wrote that song, dies a long painful death.

    Doesn't help none when you perform the encore :mad:!


  • #17
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    TomTom > Garmin


  • #18
    Caco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    sensibleken wrote: »
    ffs, what wrong with the one we have now? Its easy. Dublin 1. grand i know where that is 66fdknlkm57687. Oh grand, thats made things simpler.

    Yeah it really boggles the mind as there are no other postal areas outside of Dublin :rolleyes:


  • #19
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,023 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Wow, those are rather lengthy postcodes. Most of the world's countries make do with around 5-6 characters...

    Why would Ireland need 8 characters for? The country isn't THAT big!

    It's more accurate. I have a postcode for my sofa!


  • #20
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Caco wrote: »
    Yeah it really boggles the mind as there are no other postal areas outside of Dublin :rolleyes:

    Does your post get lost?


  • #21
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭positron


    Don't know about Caco, but I have seen loads of mails coming to me, when it's supposed to go to another part of the estate (same house number, different area of the estate). I am sure some of my post is ending up there too.


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  • #22
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    positron wrote: »
    Don't know about Caco, but I have seen loads of mails coming to me, when it's supposed to go to another part of the estate (same house number, different area of the estate). I am sure some of my post is ending up there too.

    you have a drunk postman


  • #23
    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    From living in the north postcodes make everything. But they have to be used universally or their useless. Just 8 letters identifies a street in the UK


  • #24
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Giblet wrote: »
    It's more accurate. I have a postcode for my sofa!

    With 8 characters, I'll end up having one for my tea pot!


  • #25
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    sensibleken wrote: »
    Does your post get lost?

    I've had a good few letters lost in the mail.
    And I keep getting other people's mail on a quite regular basis. And I don't even live in a place with a name that exists several times in Ireland.


  • #26
    SirLemonhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭SirLemonhead


    Caco wrote: »
    Yeah it really boggles the mind as there are no other postal areas outside of Dublin :rolleyes:

    Boggers the mind indeed! :pac:


  • #27
    Caco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    sensibleken wrote: »
    Does your post get lost?

    Mostly not that I'm aware of... but then how would I know :D

    There was a few occurrences recently though of bills I didn't receive- I registered with my full address but the company deleted my street address from their system (but left the house number, town & county!) If there was a postcode included in my address, the mail would have reached me

    The biggest benefit I can see is website forms with a mandatory postcode field which don't accept 'NA' or '0000'!


  • #28
    upmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin

    I hope that whoever wrote that song, dies a long painful death.

    Carol of the Bells? The composer died in 1921.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Leontovych


  • #29
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin
    Give a, give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin

    I hope that whoever wrote that song, dies a long painful death.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgHTJOsi6c&feature=related


  • #30
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    sensibleken wrote: »
    ffs, what wrong with the one we have now? Its easy. Dublin 1. grand i know where that is 66fdknlkm57687. Oh grand, thats made things simpler.

    2 slight problems with that...

    1. There's the rest of the boglands outside of the pale to consider
    2. That postcode is clearly meant to refer to a specific location, D1 is just a vague area...

    Does seem a bit fecking long mind you - if the UK can make do with 7 characters for a basic postcode (minus the DPS), does Ireland really need 8?...


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  • #31
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,024 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    It's to make life easier for us.

    Next year they are replacing 999 with an easy to remember 16 digit number........again making life easier for us.


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