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 (osm: chillly) On 25 September 2016 at 21:34:26 +01:00, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata> > > The end result is that I still can't type UK postcodes into Nominatim, > the main OSM search engine, and depend on getting useful results back. > Which makes it, TBH, bloody useless compared to Google Maps, as 95% of > the address searches I do are by postcode. Example: > > <https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=LE11+1PN&polygon=1&viewbox=> > "No results" > and > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=LE11%201PN#map=13/52.7747/-1.1692> > Gives me "LE11 1##", which is not very close at all. To add insult to > injury, it says "Results from NPEMap/FreeThePostcode", but it seems like > either of those projects lets you add to their database any more! > Nominatim doesn't seem to turn up postcodes even if they are added to > objects in the OSM database as postcodes. > > 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 glaring issue for years, but no-one > else seems bothered... > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> >
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