Since the beginning of the site, we have included data from Free The Postcode, which is another site dedicated to producing public domain postcode data. These entries show up on our maps with a purple marker (our data has a green marker).

From this week, we're pleased to announce we're including data from a second public domain, collaborative postcode project. This one is the Locating Postboxes project, run by Matthew Somerville. Some of the postboxes they locate have known postcodes, and this data is shown on our site with pink markers.

As with Free The Postcode, this data is imported into our site nightly. Our importer scripts are also open source, and available from here, which people are always welcome to use and improve

By popular request, we're now providing an RSS feed of recent postcode submissions, at http://www.npemap.org.uk/allpostcodes.rss.

This feed is similar to the one provided by Free The Postcode, and is a geo-referenced (geoRSS) feed of the 100 most recently submitted postcodes.

We hope this'll prove useful for those of you who want to update their NPEMap data on the fly, and for other uses we've yet to think of. Please do get in touch if there are other useful formats you'd like to get our data in, if the downloads and rss feed don't fit your needs, and we'll see what we can do.