On 13/08/14 15:40, Andy Robinson wrote: > The NSG is a closed shop run by the OS and other stakeholders for the > management of street works. When the NSG was set up a few years ago I tried > to get access and initially during their pilot I sort of did, but this was > cut off when the system whet fully live and access limited to the LA's and > the statutory undertakers. The reason access was denied was apparently for > commercial reasons, in that the statutory undertakers did not want all and > sundry to have information on their assets.
It does replace the "List of Streets Maintainable at the Public Expense" but I do seem to recall that since it is created as part of the NLGP process, there was a more recent discussion on it being opened as a base for the open address initiative? > On 13/08/14 12:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: >> As far as street names and numbers are concerned, it is the council >> that is the official authority on these. They have to maintain a >> written "List of Streets Maintainable at the Public Expense". Again if >> you can persuade the council to let you re-use this under a suitable >> licence, then all is good. >> >> For more information, see >> http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/council-docs.html > > Hasn't that been superseded these days? > > As part of the LLPG requirements (Local Land and Property Gazetteer) > councils are now required to maintain the LSG Local Street Gazetteer and > both of these then feed into the National version. The NSG is a believe part > of 'The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991' > https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/street-works-co-ordination > for some light reading ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
