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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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