[Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

[Tom Hughes]

On 28/10/11 10:18, Michael Collinson wrote:

> On 27/10/2011 11:47, Gervase Markham wrote:
>> On 04/07/11 13:53, Michael Collinson wrote:
>>> At the moment, this excludes Code-Point Open, (postcode) data since they
>>> are awaiting a response from Royal Mail who have rights in that dataset.
>> I just dropped in to find out why I still can't search for most full UK
>> postcodes using Nominatim, and if there was anything I can do to help.
>> Do I take it that this is the reason? :-|
 >
> I don't know if that is the reason but the "at the moment" regretfully
> still holds and, given Royal Mail's known position regarding IP, I am
> not going to hold my breath on it changing.

No it's not the reason, because Nominatim can handle that data 
separately. Indeed I believe Brian has code to do so in the next version 
of Nominatim.

Tom

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