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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p>
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<p class="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?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can choose to choose to correspond with <a href="mailto:board@osmuk.org">
board@osmuk.org</a> too if you prefer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gareth L<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OSMUK CIC<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:tonyosm9@gmail.com">Tony Shield</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>20 January 2021 10:58<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Talk-GB] Ofcom consultation - Royal Mail - PAF - OSMUK Response?</p>
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<p>Hi</p>
<p>I've read the link below, responding as requested by both individuals and OSMUK can only help our mapping efforts.</p>
<p>May I request OSMUK to consider responding to the Ofcom consultation</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 20/01/2021 10:33, Peter Wells wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">long time reader, first time poster.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.centreforpublicdata.org/ask-ofcom-to-review-address-data">https://www.centreforpublicdata.org/ask-ofcom-to-review-address-data</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/peterkwells">https://twitter.com/peterkwells</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://peterkwells.com">http://peterkwells.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>Talk-GB mailing list</pre>
<pre><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a></pre>
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