On 05/11/12 14:19, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
Oops. I hadn't spotted that. It looks like ONS is getting just as
confused as I am with the different licenses. It seems that the
license ONS is providing the data under is fine for OSM then. :-)
(I'd still suspect that there is some
On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the
Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from it and
created a tile overlay which can help find a postcode for a building in GB,
Hi Robert,
The odd statement on ONS's website seems to be more related to the Northern
Ireland part of the dataset. If you see the full statement on the licenses
page then it states clearly that the data is available under OGL (see
below). The same statement is also made in the download file
Rob Nickerson wrote:
On a related note, we now have the support of the Open Data User Group (ODUG),
who have issued a paper calling for the release of address data as open data. As
you may or may not recall, ODUG reports in to the Cabinet Office and is
responsible for identify public sector
Nice work Chris.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net]
Sent: 30 October 2012 19:25
To: Talk GB
Subject: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the
Open Government
On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the
Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from it and
created a tile overlay which can help find a postcode for a building in GB,
Hi Chris
Great work! I can now get cracking on adding complete postcodes to
addresses.
Regards
Brian
On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the
Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the
The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under
the Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from
it and created a tile overlay which can help find a postcode for a
building in GB, excluding Northern Ireland. More info is at
is against another for the same street etc.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Colin Smale [mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: 31 October 2012 12:08
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
The UK Office for National Statistics has
Colin, it's fine to add the postcode data to a node object (eg a poi),
just
don't create a node with just the postcode and nothing else as this is
meaningless. The postcode data we have is not the information for
individual
buildings, its just the centroid of the address polygon which will
-Original Message-
From: Colin Smale [mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: 31 October 2012 12:26
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
Colin, it's fine to add the postcode data to a node object (eg a poi),
just don't create a node
from a separate database.
Cheers
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Colin Smale [mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: 31 October 2012 12:26
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
Colin, it's fine to add the postcode data to a node object
...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: 31 October 2012 12:54
To: Andy Robinson
Cc: 'Colin Smale'; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [Talk-GB] Office of National Statistics data
Ah, but we are not in the business of adding non-physical stuff just
because it makes a search work better. If we have something to add
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