[Talk-GB] BIS report on open national address data

[Lester Caine]

Dan S wrote:
> Nice to see the recommendation. I guess from an OSM point of view, one
> of the most important responses to make would be to ensure that the
> basic free product is truly OGL, free of any more restricted content
> (e.g. OSOGL) that could hold back beneficial uses of the data?

Not read in detail, but 'page 83' sums it up for me ... all of the work relating 
to an address is done by the local council who input it to the LLPG and from 
there it is archived to the NLPG. The only involvement that Royal Mail have is 
in creating a new postcode if one does not already exist. Certainly OS have no 
input creating the raw data, only in later displaying the information provided 
by the plans created as part of the planning process. Cost of a planning 
application covers the bulk of the expence? and a postcode is simply a tag the 
bulk of which is defined by the adjacent existing postcodes. As long as we can 
in future add the NLPG location reference ... which includes locations that do 
not physically have postal deliveries! ... then what information that is 
available via the NLPG can then simply be accessed? Nothing really needed 
otherwise except OSM could provide the fine detail of an NLPG reference where 
that is not currently even recorded in the LLPG ...

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