Micah Very nice. Do you have any thoughts about how you could attract large numbers of users to this site?
80n On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Micah <[email protected]> wrote: > The data in the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) is owned by Local > Government > Information House (LGIH) on behalf of the local authorities. > A commercial operation Intelligent Addressing > manages the data and runs infrastructure to maintain it: > http://www.intelligent-addressing.co.uk/ > > The local authorities can justify the money spent on maintaining their own > Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) which feeds in to NSG as less than > it > saved in increase efficiencies by avoiding duplicating maintain multiple > address datasets across departments, so saves council tax. > > Local Authorities also have duties to be responsible for Street Naming & > Numbering with local guidelines to be enforced for new streets. > > https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=Street+Naming+%26+Numbering > > I think they should give up trying to gain additional revenue by trying to > sell it, and release all they can to be free-ly reused. > > Others do too: > > http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/2008/12/05/NationalStreetGazetteer > > http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/CategoryView/category/NLPG/ > > but will those voices outweigh those with vesting interest as re-sellers: > > http://www.aligned- > > assets.co.uk/news/2010/Aligned_Assets_bring_NLPG_affordability_to_smaller_organisations_through_Software_By_Subscription.html > > http://www.nlpg.org.uk/ > > > Given the quite right rebuff to the idea of a 'correct' street name later > in > this this thread there is also the mistakes that will be in the NSG itself. > A > dataset only gets more accurate if it has good feedbacks to correct it, and > these generally increase with use. > > > Could we ever build an open replacement for the National Land and Property > Gazetteer (NLPG) & the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)? > > Well we can try: > http://openaddresses.org/ > > cheers, > > Micah Bunny > -- > http://blog.j12.org/ > > > > On Friday 06 Aug 2010 14:36:46 Lester Caine wrote: > > Jason Cunningham wrote: > > > Just read through a short discussion about differences in street names > > > in OSM and 'OS Locator', and problems caused by differences in names > > > given The classic problem is where the road street sign says something > > > like 'Dukes Drive' but OS locator states Duke's Drive. > > > Noticed that common view was OSM mapped what was on the ground, so road > > > sign name was added. > > > > > > Having come across roads where road names differ on adjacent roads > > > signs, I'm not too sure road signs can be 100% relied on, but OS also > > > clearly make mistakes. > > > Has anyone heard of how this problem is dealt with by authorities (eg > > > councils) as they seem to rely on OS as a definitive source for mapping > > > data. > > > > The councils will be be working to the street table in their LLPG data, > and > > it is that which is supplied TO OS as the 'correct' local information. > > There is even a mechanism for advising changes and new streets in the > > update format. The one thing that is worth noting in this is that > POSTCODE > > is not a requirement in this data, only the NLPG references. Of cause > what > > is more anoying is that while we all pay to create the data via our > > council tax, http://www.thensg.org.uk/ is owned by a commercial > operation > > that then makes money out of it :( > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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