Tom Hughes [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: > Sent: 30 November 2011 11:11 > To: Andy Robinson > Cc: 'Craig Loftus'; 'talk-gb OSM List (E-mail)' > Subject: Re: Further Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement > 2011 > > On 30/11/11 11:01, Andy Robinson wrote: > > > Has anyone been able to get at any data from the NAG? Page 11 of > > yesterday's statement says "Any user can access data from the National > > Address Gazetteer for free to initially test, evaluate and develop > > into new and innovative products." which doesn't exactly leave me > > thinking the actual data will receive an "Open" badge any time soon > > but at present I can't even see how you can achieve anything for > > testing purposes via the geoplace website or the OS's Addressbase > products. > > Yes I immediately wrote that off as "non free" data based on that paragraph. > It's obvious that the plan is just to suck people into using the data and then > sting them with the bill once they rely on it. > > Given that they are hardly likely to let us use it. > > Most of the rest of what is in there is good, but that particular point looks like > an unfortunate lost opportunity. >
I've dropped an email to Geoplace to ask about the free access for testing. Will see what response comes back. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
