Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Chris Hill
The £20 million was helpful but the real deal was the PSMA, which killed off the embryonic commercial competition for OS overnight. Cheers, Chris (chillly) On 25 September 2016 22:41:37 BST, Owen Boswarva wrote: >Government agreed to pay Ordnance Survey £20 million

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Chris Hill
Postcodes don't apply to a road, they apply to a collection of delivery points. Many, many roads have multiple postcodes. Some buildings have multiple postcodes. See my postcode page: http://codepoint.raggedred.net Cheers (chillly) On 25 September 2016 22:52:27 BST, Lester Caine

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Owen Boswarva
Another OS OpenData dataset, OS Open Names, supports association of postcode centroids with road names. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html Owen On 25 September 2016 at 22:52, Lester Caine wrote: > On 25/09/16 21:34, Gervase

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/09/16 21:34, Gervase Markham wrote: > Does this not bother anyone else? It is just me? If it bothers lots of > people, why did those projects shut and why does no-one appear to be > doing anything about it? I kind of feel I must have missed something big > as this has seemed like an enormous

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Owen Boswarva
Government agreed to pay Ordnance Survey £20 million per annum for the OS OpenData package, including Code-Point Open. The contract is here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/os_opendata_agreement_with_ordna_2#incoming-498165 I can't see any obvious reason why Royal Mail would oppose a

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Chris Hill
GB postcodes are published under a compatible licence by the Office of National Statistics. The confusion over the Codepoint Open licence has been resolved as it is now released under a suitable licence too. Northern Ireland does not release its postcodes under any open licence. Cheers, Chris

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Killyfole and District Development Association
Has the Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) followed the lead regarding Open Government Licencing? Last time I checked the Royal Mail still claimed copyright over postcodes and addresses in Northern Ireland. Something I find totally disgusting. On Sunday, 25 September 2016 21:47:57 BST

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Owen Boswarva
I can't see any reason why there should be a problem using Code-Point Open in OSM, now that Ordnance Survey has applied the Open Government Licence in place of its own licence. If you read further down, the wiki page gives examples of OSM projects that use Code-Point Open. Owen On 25 September

[Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Gervase Markham
I hope this isn't a silly question, but: it seems like all the projects to free the UK postcode database (like npemap and freethepostcode) closed down five or more years ago when the OS release CodePoint Open. However, this data set is not suitable for use in OSM, according to: