<div dir="auto">My initial thought was also "conspiracy!". Licence problem is more likely, or perhaps they were concerned that someone might poll the URL with every available UPRN.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, 11:38 Nick, <<a href="mailto:nick@foresters.org">nick@foresters.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have no problem with licencing but the UPRN and related data is <br>
managed by Authority custodians - do they not retain ownership of that data?<br>
<br>
If the authorities sell it to OS, then should this be raised with The Rt <br>
Hon Alok Sharma MP (he owns 100% of the shares of OS)?<br>
<br>
N.B. there are some aspects to address data that is subject to other IP <br>
rights but the remainder..... is surely of public interest and value.<br>
<br>
On 02/08/2020 10:34, Russ Garrett wrote:<br>
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, Andy Mabbett <<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Do you have a plausible hypothesis to explain the removal of UPRNs<br>
>> from the flood warning pages, that also gives us a reason to trust the<br>
>> organisation that enacted that change?<br>
> It's almost certainly because some lawyer or other spotted that it's a<br>
> violation of the PSGA (formerly PSMA) license under which the<br>
> AddressBase data is made available to the Environment Agency.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licensing/psga-member-licence.pdf" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licensing/psga-member-licence.pdf</a><br>
><br>
> There's no conspiracy here beyond OS zealously protecting its data, as<br>
> it always has done.<br>
><br>
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