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How it was done – Nigerian postcode data extraction
In: Open Data|Programming
25 Jul 2010In my previous post, I talked about open data and how making the Nigerian postcode data open and more accessible has a wide potential for powering several applications. I’ve received several comments on Facebook with even more examples on how that data could be useful. In this post, I would share how this extraction was [...]
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- Tags: Nigeria, postcodes, python, scraping
Nigerian postcodes – a case for open data
24 Jul 2010For quite a while, the Nigerian postcode system has been operational but when you ask people to fill forms, they fill in 234 or something similar for their postcode. There’s very little information available for postcodes and very little projects even use them. I will attribute it majorly to ignorance. Why is a postcode system [...]
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- Tags: LBS, opendata, postcodes, scraping
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