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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Verdana;">The Open Rights Group - ORG - they have lots of experience in responding to these sorts of consultation from an open data perspective, and they often give evidence to select committees, etc. They responded to a previous PAF consultation (<a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/response-to-royal-mail-paf-licensing-consultation/">https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/response-to-royal-mail-paf-licensing-consultation/</a> ). <br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">Does anyone reading this have any contacts in that group, who might be able to run their eyes over the OSMUK response? Assuming we're looking for an outside view.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div id="sig98312048"><div class="signature">---<br></div><div class="signature"><a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain">https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain</a><br></div><div class="signature"><a href="mailto:spiregrain_osm@ksglp.org.uk">spiregrain_osm@ksglp.org.uk</a><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div>On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, at 5:52 PM, Gareth L wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Hello,<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Yes, I’ll begin drafting a response for OSMUK. I’ve created a Loomio post on the response here: <a href="https://www.loomio.org/d/3bPmlyRB/response-to-ofcom-s-plan-of-work-2021-2022"> https://www.loomio.org/d/3bPmlyRB/response-to-ofcom-s-plan-of-work-2021-2022</a> as not all members follow this mailing list. Are there other recommendations and specific points to be included?<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">You can choose to choose to correspond with <a href="mailto:board@osmuk.org"> board@osmuk.org</a> too if you prefer.<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Thank you<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Gareth L<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">OSMUK CIC<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><div style="border-right-color:currentcolor;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:medium;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-top-color:rgb(225, 225, 225);border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1pt;padding-top:3pt;padding-right:0cm;padding-bottom:0cm;padding-left:0cm;"><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="border-top-color:currentcolor;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:medium;border-right-color:currentcolor;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:medium;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;padding-top:0cm;padding-right:0cm;padding-bottom:0cm;padding-left:0cm;"><br></p><div><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:tonyosm9@gmail.com">Tony Shield</a><br></div><div> <b>Sent: </b>20 January 2021 10:58<br></div><div> <b>To: </b><a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Talk-GB] Ofcom consultation - Royal Mail - PAF - OSMUK Response?<br></div><p><br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p>Hi<br></p><p>I've read the link below, responding as requested by both individuals and OSMUK can only help our mapping efforts.<br></p><p>May I request OSMUK to consider responding to the Ofcom consultation<br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">On 20/01/2021 10:33, Peter Wells wrote:<br></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Hello everyone,<br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">long time reader, first time poster.<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">I know that address data, and the various licensing and business models around it, are a long-standing bugbear for parts of the OSM community. One of those licensing and business models is Royal Mail because of their role on PAF.<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Ofcom, who regulate Royal Mail's role on PAF, are currently consulting on their plan of work for 2021/22. This provides an opportunity for them to look at this part of the address puzzle, but they need to know that this is important to
people.<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">The Centre for Public Data, which is run by Anna Powell-Smith aka @darkgreener on twitter, has just published a short briefing on the consultation, how they plan to respond, and tips to make it easier for others to respond if you want to.
It's here:<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.centreforpublicdata.org/ask-ofcom-to-review-address-data">https://www.centreforpublicdata.org/ask-ofcom-to-review-address-data</a> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Best,<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Peter<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterkwells">https://twitter.com/peterkwells</a><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><a href="http://peterkwells.com">http://peterkwells.com</a><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><br></p><div><br></div><p><br></p><pre>_______________________________________________<br></pre><pre>Talk-GB mailing list<br></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br></pre></blockquote><pre style="margin-right:36pt;margin-bottom:5pt;margin-left:36pt;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></pre><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Courier New";"><span class="size" style="font-size:10pt;"> </span></span></span><br></p></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Talk-GB mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div></body></html>