[Talk-GB] Postcode update

[Lester Caine]

Chris Hill wrote:
> IMHO there never was a problem. OS said they couldn't speak for Royal Mail,
> which is fair enough, but it doesn't mean there is an actual problem. Codepoint
> Open now features on the data.gov.uk <http://data.gov.uk> website as something
> that uses the Open Government Licence, and a little web app using OSM and
> Codepoint Open data is shown there too.
>
> I do not see, and never saw, a problem.

There is no problem with using the postcode, the only problem comes when adding 
address information to it which is the bit that is 'licensed'. I have no problem 
with the PAF database being licensed, that is Royal Mail managed data, but since 
the street name data is freely distributed, a proper codepoint what includes the 
street name is very much open source. We just have to add the right names 
ourselves :(

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