This has to be a coincidence right? From April 2010 the UK postcode database (PAF) is to be made free. This is what the www.mapme.biz site was designed to promote and it looks as people in high places have listened to us and people like our friends over at www.freethepostcode.org. Just goes to show what people power can do! We are planning to offer a very wide range of postcode and geographic / geocoding services as soon as it's legal to do so. In the meantime we will be releasing demo code based on our <ahem> source of the existing data.
Read more about this announcement at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8402327.stm