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Government introduces Postcodes in Ireland..?

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  • #452
    axer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    Thats crazy. Dont know how other systems are going to work down the country where there could be miles between houses.


  • #453
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I don't want to lose Dublin 4 from my address thank you very much, my parents worked hard to give me that.


  • #454
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    All the detail about Loc8 Codes and lots of questions answered here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69968180&postcount=82


  • #455
    boop de boop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3 ✭boop de boop


    RichieC wrote: »
    I don't want to lose Dublin 4 from my address thank you very much, my parents worked hard to give me that.

    Loc8 Codes are to be used in CONJUNCTION with your original address (as already stated in posts in this thread)


  • #456
    pancyk
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭pancyk


    Looks like Garmin and Loc8 Codes are back on Dublin Streets...

    See here:


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  • #457
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    RichieC wrote: »
    I don't want to lose Dublin 4 from my address thank you very much, my parents worked hard to give me that.

    Wow, that has to be one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard in my life.

    My parents worked hard to make sure I got an excellent education and therefore job. Where you live is completely irrelevant.

    Anyway, you can still have D4 in your address, it just wouldn't be necessary.

    The following are all the same address and all would be valid:

    NN4-39-DX7

    RTE,
    NN4-39-DX7

    RTE,
    Donnybrook,
    Dublin 4
    NN4-39-DX7


  • #458
    Smcgie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Smcgie


    Er I would hazard a guess and say he was being sarcastic..


  • #459
    usernamegoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭usernamegoes


    I saw in the Programme for Government, something about postcodes, any news on this? What was it they wanted to do differently to FF?


  • #460
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    There was a debate on the topic last Wednesday evening, when I happened to be in the Dáil (on different business). You can read it here.

    There seems to be growing support for the idea of a GPS-based code rather than an arbitrary postal code.


  • #461
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Following on from the above: the sum total mention of post codes in the legislation that allows for them is as follows:
    PART 3

    Postcodes
    61.--(1) In this section--

    "postcode"means a code consisting of numbers or other characters or both numbers and other characters that identifies the locality of an address and, where appropriate, the geographic location of an address;

    “distribution” and “postal packets” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section 6.

    (2) The Minister may establish, maintain and operate a system for the making available and management of postcodes for the purposes of providing routing instructions for the transmission, sorting, transportation, distribution and delivery of postal packets and such other purposes as the Minister considers appropriate relating to the provision of postal services.

    (3) Subject to subsection (4), the Minister may delegate one or more of his or her functions under subsection (2) to such person or persons as the Minister considers appropriate for the purposes of this section subject to such terms and conditions as may be specified in the delegation, including terms and conditions relating to the dissemination of postcodes and the protection of intellectual property rights.

    (4) A delegation under subsection (3) shall not be made without the prior consent of the Minister for Finance.
    On the plus side, it allows for the geographic location of an address by a postcode. On the not-so-plus, it seems to be heavily focused on the delivery of post, which is only one small part of what a location code is all about.

    Still all to play for.


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  • #462
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Following on from the above: the sum total mention of post codes in the legislation that allows for them is as follows: On the plus side, it allows for the geographic location of an address by a postcode. On the not-so-plus, it seems to be heavily focused on the delivery of post, which is only one small part of what a location code is all about.

    Still all to play for.

    They are still focused on "the locality" and the geographic coordinates they are talking about are only those of the center of "the locality" they mention (centre of 50 properties) - not much good for post (An Post do not need a postcode at all) and absolutely no good for couriers, utility companies, services providers, tourists and motorists in general etc etc.

    The Process is on hold now for the last 6 weeks anyhow as new Government want to review. There'll not be even "locality" postcodes any time soon!!!

    In the mean time Loc8 Codes already in use - no need to wait another 6 years to be able to find places in Ireland (north and south) without local knowledge, endless phone calls and driving around in circles burning expensive fuel unnecessarily.

    Loc8 Codes have brought us into the Post Postcodes era already! :)


  • #463
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    As I said;- Postcodes are ancient technology

    Loc8 Codes are for the Post postcode (21st Century) era !


  • #464
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    Yet another reason for Loc8 Codes;- a woman dies in Scotland when a man tries to resuscitate her and give directions to the ambulance at the same time - Ambulance couldn't find them in time - reported by the Scotsman ;- and this is in the UK which has a 1950's type postcodes - same as the Department of Communications have been talking about introducing here for the last 6 years - only a less accurate version!

    Loc8 Codes are for the Post Postcode era (location based technology era) and much more accurate;- and how accurate the map on the device in the ambulance is does not matter one bit once you have a Loc8 Code!


  • #465
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    thebman wrote: »
    Roughly, D4 heads want to stay D4 heads and the government must chose the most expensive, least effective solution for everything that is available on the market in an attempt to please everyone which can't be done so we are left with something that costs crap loads to maintain and implement that nobody wants to use.

    Its gonna be awesome!

    most "D4" people don't live in Dublin 4, they live in 6, 6W, 14, 18, etc. Not to mention that Irishtown is hardly a "D4" area despite being in D4.


  • #466
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    Yet another reason for Loc8 Codes:

    An Amercian unable to find Bodenstown Cemetery or the Nixon Quaker Stone in Timahoe.

    All is required is for someone who knows the locations to create Loc8 Codes for the sites and make them public on websites. A Loc8 Code is free to generate.

    Tourists who have difficulty finding places will not try again and will stick to close-by places only - leaving many tourist attractions unfrequented by visitors to Ireland!!!


  • #467
    Icepick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    secular education
    postal codes

    Slowly but surely Ireland is introducing the great achievements of the 20th century.


  • #468
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    In donegal there are 3 postal areas, Donegal Town, Lifford and Letterkenny.

    So you could have: 10 Newport heights, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
    Then you could have 10 Barrington Ave, Dungloe, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

    These 2 places are 30 miles away. If someone was coming up from dublin looking for 10 Barrington Heights they would prob ask for directions to letterkenny and then find they were 30 miles from the place. Its a completely joke of a system. The sooner we have proper postcodes the better.


  • #469
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,814 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    Where are you getting these addresses from? The above are not valid postal addresses, or anything like any valid address I can find.


  • #470
    sollar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    antoinolachtnai wrote: »
    Where are you getting these addresses from? The above are not valid postal addresses, or anything like any valid address I can find.

    I made up the street names for illustration purposes. Dungloe and letterkenny are the valid parts


  • #471
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,814 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    I don't think there are any actual postal addresses like that but you are welcome to prove me wrong.


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  • #472
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    sollar wrote: »
    In donegal there are 3 postal areas, Donegal Town, Lifford and Letterkenny.

    So you could have: 10 Newport heights, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
    Then you could have 10 Barrington Ave, Dungloe, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

    These 2 places are 30 miles away. If someone was coming up from dublin looking for 10 Barrington Heights they would prob ask for directions to letterkenny and then find they were 30 miles from the place. Its a completely joke of a system. The sooner we have proper postcodes the better.

    and what are proper postcodes? - those being discussed by DCENR which will only identify the centre of 50 properties? - i.e. no improvement on an existing townland addresss - or do you mean a modern alternative like Loc8 Codes which are already available, will indentify individual properties and non properties, you can create for yourself, they can be used in modern technology, you do NOT need permission from Governmment to use, no need for the Government to spend €43 million of taxpayers money, you do not have to wait 6 years so far to decide what to do and you don't end up with the same as in Northern Ireland which does not help you find places outside urban areas...

    Postcodes are 1950's technology - is that what you consider proper postcodes?- they are extremely limited and of no value in Ireland unless every property owner agrees to adopt and use a house number and accepts that every road must have a name???

    no need for that - Loc8 Codes are for the Post Postcode era - already here and useable on modern technology... the web, Garmins, Iphones and much more on the way!


  • #473
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    antoinolachtnai wrote: »
    I don't think there are any actual postal addresses like that but you are welcome to prove me wrong.
    Many addresses in Erris end with "Ballina, Co. Mayo" - Erris is a good long way from Ballina. Similarly I have a friend whose postal address is in County Mayo although he lives in County Sligo.


  • #474
    hatz7
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭hatz7


    I don't think that we need post codes in Ireland.

    Why are they necessary?


  • #475
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,814 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Many addresses in Erris end with "Ballina, Co. Mayo" - Erris is a good long way from Ballina. Similarly I have a friend whose postal address is in County Mayo although he lives in County Sligo.

    Well, that is true. But that doesn't happen so much in Donegal anymore. They fixed up the address database from what I can see.

    The worst of the cross-border addresses seem to have been knocked out too. (Although a good 15 percent of the addresses in the State have a location in a county that no longer even offically exists).


  • #476
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    hatz7 wrote: »
    I don't think that we need post codes in Ireland.

    Why are they necessary?
    Would it be a lot to ask that you'd read the thread before weighing in with, frankly, a silly question?


  • #477
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Many addresses in Erris end with "Ballina, Co. Mayo" - Erris is a good long way from Ballina. Similarly I have a friend whose postal address is in County Mayo although he lives in County Sligo.

    You are right - there are places in Waterford whose postal address is "Youghal Co. Cork". Postal addresses are not physical addresses and therefore are not often very useful unless you have local knowledge - not useful to a courier or carpet layer or a SKY TV installer....

    The problem is that in this country's consideration of postcodes at DCENR level all discussion is related to compounding this problem. The general population think that it is going to be unique to their house and it will contain the placename where they live. With 64k townlands and a plan to have 200 post town names there will be a lot of disappointed people and a lot of postcodes that have unrecognisable abbreviated place-names included that are not in anyway related to the phyiscal address/location. Not to mention related arguments over Irish or English.

    Postcodes are only designed for sorting mail; traditionally including visual clues as to where sorting should take place - do An Post need this knowadays? - Not at all and sorting is done by machinery anyhow so visual clues are no longer required...

    Anyhow what is proposed (on hold yet again - 6 years later) will only indentify areas not properties...... pointless really!

    Postcodes were for another pre machinery, pre GIS, pre routing, pre GPS, pre courier, pre home-delivery era.... Loc8 Codes are for now;- "the Post Postcode Era" - using modern technologies to help the 400,000 vehicles that waste up to 20% in fuel anually trying to find places; -for delivering services directly to homes, farms, industrial sites, offices, along roads, to leisure and sporting facilities, to outdoor events and including the Emergency Services;- including to non properties that may have no postal address at all. These 400,000 vehicles will not have their problems solved or costs reduced by a 1950's style postcode that does not help them find places!

    Loc8 Codes are language and service provider independent and will save time and fuel and are already available - no need to wait for 6 more years of discussion!


  • #478
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Don't want them, don't need them.

    By getting rid of our townlands off our addresses it will remove one of the things that makes Ireland different to nearly every other country.
    uniqueness of place

    I don't want anyone to be able to pinpoint my house on a map.


  • #479
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    Don't want them, don't need them.
    Oh well, if you don't want or need them, then I guess we'd better shelve the whole project.
    By getting rid of our townlands off our addresses it will remove one of the things that makes Ireland different to nearly every other country.
    uniqueness of place
    Uniqueness? Do you have any idea how many "Lissaniskas" there are in Mayo? How many of them are within a couple of kilometres of each other? There's nothing remotely unique about townland names.

    Besides, who's asking you to get rid of it? There wouldn't be a law against having a townland name and a postcode on an envelope. You'd still have the twee factor that seems so important to you, combined with getting rid of the whole "oh you mean the other Ballyglass" factor.
    I don't want anyone to be able to pinpoint my house on a map.
    I'd quite like an ambulance to be able to pinpoint my house on a map, thank you very much. For that matter, it would save me a lot of time and hassle if couriers were able to find my house without me spending five minutes giving directions - and I live in a town!

    People living in towns can have their houses pinpointed on a map by address alone. What makes you special?


  • #480
    paraletic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭paraletic


    Even with drink on me, i can see that postcodes are a good idea.
    ;)


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  • #481
    paraletic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭paraletic


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    Don't want them, don't need them.

    By getting rid of our townlands off our addresses it will remove one of the things that makes Ireland different to nearly every other country.
    uniqueness of place

    I don't want anyone to be able to pinpoint my house on a map.

    as an ambulance driver/paramedic, i can tell you that you DO want anyone to be able to pinpoint your house on a map.
    the alternative in an emergency, is very time consuming.


  • #482
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    By getting rid of our townlands off our addresses it will remove one of the things that makes Ireland different to nearly every other country.
    uniqueness of place
    Nonsense. I spent my first summer away from home in the wonderfully named Stow-cum-Quy near Cambridge, a town with all of the singularity one could imagine, and positively brimming with *postcodes*! The UK has some of the most fascinating placenames in the English speaking world, with postcodes having no detrimental effect on these names. Nobody refers to their town as 4NS.

    To be honest, Im not convinced that Ireland simply must have postcodes, or that the need is all that pressing. However, yours is the worst argument I can see in opposing them.


  • #483
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    Has anyone taken time to look at when this Thread started - "Government Introduces Postcodes in Ireland" - 14-1-2008 - that's well over 3 years ago!!!

    This thread was started on the date when Noel Dempsey had promised PostCodes would be in place - now 3 years late! He promised this in 2005 - 6 years ago no less and Eamon Ryan was unable to deliver!

    So folks times have moved on - we do not have traditional postcodes because what was proposed was out of date and no one has really been convinced of their value as proposed, including the current FG/Lab Government who contributed largely to the Oireachtas Report of 1st April 2010 which criticised the then 5 year old FF/GP plan and recommended an alternative GPS based solution. This same recommendation has been made in the Dail over the last few weeks by members of the new Government.

    Loc8 Codes have evolved from PON Codes - around now for several years - a solution which is orientated towards modern GPS and positioning technologies as the Oireachtas report suggested.

    Loc8 Codes are not traditional postcodes - they are a modern alternative with significant additional capabilities, for the Post Postcode Era - they are already in place and already in use including by several Government agencies!

    Loc8 Code Ltd is a new small Irish company (evolved out of GPS Ireland)based in Crosshaven in Cork and together they have delivered Loc8 Codes over a period of 6 years. Loc8 is a privately owned company. It is currently employing 6 people with plans for 20 as the roll out evolves during 2011/12.

    Therefore the discussion over whether we need postcodes or not is over - we do not need postcodes for mail and we do not need traditional old style postcodes like they have in Northern Ireland (would not work here either anyhow) We need a solution which appeals to a much wider set of industries - Logistics, Couriers, Fastfood, Motoring, Tourist, Retail/Home Delivery, Utilities, Services, Emergency Services etc etc - and this is what Loc8 Codes do ! And if you don't want one - then that's fine - its entirely up to you - it will just cost more for someone other than An Post to deliver services to your home/Business/Event/Tourist attraction!


  • #484
    byrnefm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭byrnefm


    I'm just catching up on this thread after a few months...

    So if I'm reading this right, the postcode project is on hold yet again since the last several weeks? Is there any word on when it might start again? I remember hearing at one time that end of 2011 was a target date for their introduction. I'm assuming that's up in the air now...

    I'm also in favour of the Loc8 codes, though wish they were slightly easier to remember! However, it is a system that is already developed, working and usable on SatNavs - showing that it is a viable system and would be soooo handy for courier deliveries and anything else that requires address pinpointing... And best of all, in our cash-strapped economy... free!


  • #485
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    This thread was started on 14/01/08 @ 17:28. It just shows how things move so slooooowly in ireland!


  • #486
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    Noel who?


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  • #487
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    byrnefm wrote: »
    So if I'm reading this right, the postcode project is on hold yet again since the last several weeks? Is there any word on when it might start again?

    Both new Gov Party manifestos suggest changing what the last Government had proposed since 2005:

    FG Election Manifesto Page 41 - Postcodes: " Fine Gael will introduce a new post code system that works on the principle of codes unique to the location of buildings as opposed to the Government’s current plan for an area code system"

    Labour Election Manifesto Page 32 - Sustaining a Universal Postal Service: " Labour will implement the recommendations of the all-party
    agreed Oireachtas Committee Postcodes Report " (see page 17)


    so we could be a while waiting (2013/14???) for a National system. Just as well Loc8 Codes are already in place.


  • #488
    GoCoder
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭GoCoder


    garydubh wrote: »

    Labour Election Manifesto Page 32 - Sustaining a Universal Postal Service: Labour will implement the recommendations of the all-party
    agreed Oireachtas Committee Postcodes Report [/URL]" /I]

    As has been pointed out before, the link you provide to the Oireachtas Committee Postcodes Report is a misleading one that leads directly to a website carrying an earlier, out of date version of the report. The official revised report and its recommendations can be found here from the official Oireachtas website. This is the report to which the Labour manifesto refers.


  • #489
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,049 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Overheal wrote: »
    But heres confidence: 29483-5398. Do your worst. The fact is you'll find nothing.
    Damn you mapquest!

    http://www.mapquest.com/maps?address=109%20Branch%20Creek%20Trl&city=Summerville&state=SC&zipcode=29483-5398

    FWIW though I still don't understand the privacy concerns about postcodes. you could argue the same thing about actual addresses.


  • #490
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Overheal wrote: »
    Damn you mapquest!

    http://www.mapquest.com/maps?address=109%20Branch%20Creek%20Trl&city=Summerville&state=SC&zipcode=29483-5398

    FWIW though I still don't understand the privacy concerns about postcodes. you could argue the same thing about actual addresses.

    These kinds of people don't use logic.

    If someone doesn't want anyone to find you then go into a mountain and dig a hole. We promise we won't give out the postcode to your hole if you let us utilise modern technology to enhance our lifestyles!!

    Anyone know if Osama Bin Ladin's house had a postcode? Maybe that's how they got him :pac:


  • #491
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    Budget for Postcodes being used to fund other Government initiatives.

    Meanwhile, Loc8 Codes continue to grow in popularity


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  • #492
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    It shouldn't cost more than 2 million anyway. Realsitically they could just approve the Loc8 codes for national use and spend the 2 million on information for citizens.


  • #493
    byrnefm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭byrnefm


    garydubh wrote: »
    Budget for Postcodes being used to fund other Government initiatives.

    Meanwhile, Loc8 Codes continue to grow in popularity

    Sigh... I take it that this means the postcodes project is effectively shelved - again? :( And if/when it comes back as an idea again, I'm sure that another multi-million euro analysis will be required...

    (Way to go Dublin Council for using Loc8 codes on their website! Perhaps these may end up becoming 'de facto' postcodes?)


  • #494
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    Use of Garmins and Loc8 Codes would make sure this (from today's Examiner) never happens again...

    For years now we have been hearing how over-worked emergency crews have difficulty finding places - this is now even a greater problem because emergency crews have to work in unfamiliar areas due to reorganisation and cutbacks.

    A postcode designed by the Department of Communications in 2006 only for sorting mail and only defining the centre of groups of up to 50 properties will not solve this problem;- a solution which is now already 3.5 years late on delivery as a result of confusion, administrative errors, indecision and because an Oireachtas report criticised the plan as being out of date and incapable of being used on modern popular technologies such as Satnavs and GPS enabled phones.

    Loc8 Codes are based on these technologies and solve the problem - just a matter of the HSE (on a National basis) starting to use them like many other Government agencies and commercial organisations are already doing.


  • #495
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    Support for Loc8 Codes increasing all round:

    Political

    Social


  • #496
    iMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Loc8 would be great as it's in existence already but it has to be made open platform so it doesn't give a severe commercial advantage to Garmin


  • #497
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Garmin have a large share in it though and have put a lot of money into making it a known brand name.

    I don't think Loc8 would be getting the attention it is now if it wasn't for Garmin's advertising.

    I had it on my last satnav before it was stolen and worked fantastic. Far enough the place I was going didn't have its Loc8 code available but I was able to look it up online and send it to a bunch of people to help them out without sending some mad long link from google maps and was able to select the carpark entrance on the website and when I was ready to go, I just entered my code and I was good to go.

    My only problem with it is because it will cost to license it, I will never be able to use it on my phone that I'm using as my satnav at the moment because I'm using Navit and Open Street Maps but it is a proprietary technology and it is pretty much the cost of having a privately owned post code system (since our government has failed spectacularly to introduce one).

    Of course the government could license it to make it freely available I'm sure. Probably only take them 10 years to get around to it :rolleyes:


  • #498
    iMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    They need to make that app free though - €3.99 on the app store, not going to sell too many.

    If they make it free & reward people (points system) to update a central server, then it'll probably work.

    The only problem I see with it is that if I create a Loc8 code at one end of (for example) the GPO & then create another at the other end of it, they'll be two different codes for the same place & that's not how postcodes work.


  • #499
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    iMax wrote: »
    Loc8 would be great as it's in existence already but it has to be made open platform so it doesn't give a severe commercial advantage to Garmin

    Loc8 Code is open Platform - open to anyone who wants to use it.


  • #500
    garydubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭garydubh


    thebman wrote: »
    Garmin have a large share in it though and have put a lot of money into making it a known brand name.

    I don't think Loc8 would be getting the attention it is now if it wasn't for Garmin's advertising.

    I had it on my last satnav before it was stolen and worked fantastic. Far enough the place I was going didn't have its Loc8 code available but I was able to look it up online and send it to a bunch of people to help them out without sending some mad long link from google maps and was able to select the carpark entrance on the website and when I was ready to go, I just entered my code and I was good to go.

    My only problem with it is because it will cost to license it, I will never be able to use it on my phone that I'm using as my satnav at the moment because I'm using Navit and Open Street Maps but it is a proprietary technology and it is pretty much the cost of having a privately owned post code system (since our government has failed spectacularly to introduce one).

    Of course the government could license it to make it freely available I'm sure. Probably only take them 10 years to get around to it :rolleyes:

    No Problem using it on any phone - Loc8 Code (an Irish Company) licenses Loc8 Codes to developers - any application developer/satnav maker can License Loc8 Codes. Garmin pay Loc8 Code Ltd in order to use it on their devices and other manufacturers are planning to do the same.


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    garydubh
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    iMax wrote: »
    They need to make that app free though - €3.99 on the app store, not going to sell too many.

    If they make it free & reward people (points system) to update a central server, then it'll probably work.

    The only problem I see with it is that if I create a Loc8 code at one end of (for example) the GPO & then create another at the other end of it, they'll be two different codes for the same place & that's not how postcodes work.

    Point8 is the product of a private developer - Loc8 licenses the code to any developer - point8 has been downloaded several thousand times - used by couriers, paramedics, salesmen, delivery men, pizza deliveries and many more.

    Loc8 is not a postcode - a postcode is 1960's technology for sorting mail only. (no longer required for this purpose as well documented by An Post themselves) If you want to go in the southern side entrance of the GPO to meet An Post Management rather than the front entrance - then you can create a Loc8 Code for that. The GPO has several entrances giving access for different purposes - they can all have a Loc8 Code same as entrances to an industrial site - vastly superior to any traditional postcode - Loc8 is for the post postcode era which is GPS, GIS, Web Mapping, Smartphone and technology based!!!


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