This might stimulate some progress in the UK which is under a legal stranglehold of the privatised post office address file. The licensing of UK postcodes infects all the derived sources meaning there is no clear path to constructing a freely licensed set of geocoded postcodes. The ODI published a report on describing the details of the obstacles faced: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theodi.org&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;open-addresses-the-story-to-date" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theodi.org&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;open-addresses-the-story-to-d...</a>