Well, you learn something new every day! I never knew post codes were
subject to copyright. OSM has taught me it is naughty to trace off an
OS map or even read the name of a road from one. Now I'm worried
about sending letters! Should I add an extra line to the address
crediting the Post Office? And the rest of the address: are street
names copyright too? Somebody thought of the name of every street so
I guess they must own the copyright. Maybe I should just avoid
sending letters to addresses that haven't been there long enough for
the copyright on the postcode (and street name?) to expire. Now, is
that 50 or 60 years? I forget. Correction: I don't care.
elvin ibbotson
From: David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 1 December 2008 10:52:23 GMT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Postcode searches in Namefinder
UK postcodes as well as being distinctive and recognisable also
have the problem that they are copyrighted (at least, the database
and geolocations are), so it is hard to get good coverage using OSM
tags (because mappers have no means to collect these on the ground
and don't have access to copyright free sources) and the
"freethepostcode" initiative, though improving is still quite
sparse (and, I noticed when processing some of it, is riddled with
errors - obvious typos and wildly misplaced codes).
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