Hi
Starting to get a little confused here - my brother lives in Northern
Ireland and has a BT postcode which he has given me. Am I allowed to put
into OSM?
TonyS999
On 20/07/2019 08:02, Mark Goodge wrote:
On 19/07/2019 22:36, [email protected] wrote:
On 19/07/2019 20:29, Mark Goodge wrote:
ONS postcode products are also OGL, so can be reused in OSM and
similar. They're also more useful than Code-Point Open in that they
also include lookups to a number of other government codes (such as
local authority GSS codes). It also differentiates between "large
user" and normal postcodes, and includes an introduction date and,
where applicable, a termination date for every valid postcode.
That would be very useful indeed but what is the license of these
extra features? OGL alone doesn't mean anything if they qualify it
with "data may contain third party IP" or similar.
It's OGL apart from BT postcodes, which are mentioned separately in
the licence.
Their website says:
"Our postcode products (derived from Code-Point® Open) are subject to
the Open Government Licence."
and then:
"If you also use the Northern Ireland data (postcodes starting with
“BT”), you need a separate licence for commercial use direct from
Land and Property Services."
I understand it as only the part that already exists in Code-Point
Open is free, extra information may or may not be free, depending if
it comes from ONS own data or other sources.
The other information is OGL as that's derived from other published
data that's already OGL. For example, GSS codes and their associated
names. The licence page is quite clear about that: postcode lookup
data is OGL apart from BT postcodes. And those are easy enough to
filter out if necessary.
Mark
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