Popular Culture
His name has been used for ernestmarples.com, which had an initial objective of having the UK Post Code dataset released as Open Data. This was achieved on 1 April 2010 with support from many people, including MPs, and Code-Point Open can now be downloaded for free with data.gov.uk. The site is now campaigning for further Open Government Data. The founders of the site claim that they were not aware of the controversy around him at the time they chose him for the website.
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