<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry can't make tonight.<div>We need to talk about PAF, the Postcode Address File. There is a consultation run by the PAF advisory board which runs from today to the end of the month.</div><div>Openly licensing the PAF is not listed as an option. </div><div><a href="http://www.pafboard.org.uk/news.html">http://www.pafboard.org.uk/news.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I will question the validity of the consultation with the Open Data User Group. I hope OSM people will contact PAF as well.</div><div>In OSM, Matt Williams has done great work with <a href="http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/">http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/</a></div><div><br></div><div>At Open Mercia next Thursday 11th we'll talk about postcodes and open data. If anyone can come and talk about improving OSM postcode data with the open data from the Land Registry or Companies House we might get some input from developers.</div><div><a href="http://opendatauser.posterous.com/">http://opendatauser.posterous.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Andrew</div><div><br><div><div>On 1 Oct 2012, at 19:58, Brian Prangle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi all<div><br></div><div>We're back on our regular slot and will be meeting this week as below</div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">next social</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> of the </span><span class="summary" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Midlands OSM User Group</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> will be on </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thursday, 4th October , 2012, 7;30pm-ish to 10pm-ish</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. venue;</span><ul style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;list-style-type:square;margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Venue</b>: <a href="http://www.thebull-pricestreet.com/" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,187);background-image:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);padding-right:13px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">The Bull, Price Street, Birmingham</a></li>
</ul><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></font></div></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px">Look forward to seeing you there</span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px">Regards</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.200000762939453px">Brian</span></font></div>
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