On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:26 +0000, LB wrote:
I am looking for a free of charge UK postcode database. It's for the purpose of the website I am programming currently, which is of non-commercial nature.
I don't think you'll find a good quality postcode database for free. You might want to investigate the google maps api, which is free as in you don't have to pay money to use it. Check whether the licensing allows you to do what you want with it though. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/
Regarding commercial suppliers you could try http://www.afd.co.uk, although last I checked I didn't like the licensing or pricing much.
If you wanted to be a bit dodgy they do a low-end product that limits the types of query you can do and the number of results that you can get out of it in a single query. However it provides a C api that means you can write a small program to make lots of small queries and grab all the results, thereby making your own database which you can do what you want with. That would probably be against the license terms and I absolutely wouldn't suggest doing that though.
Joe