[Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

[Mark Goodge]

On 13/06/2018 17:08, Simon Poole wrote:
> Most of the time such much applauded changes in policy work mainly for 
> the big guys (aka the goog, here and tomtom), by lowering the costs to 
> have similar level of non-automotive related detail as the national 
> mapping agencies and OSM. I don't quite see and haven't seen in other 
> countries, even in theory, how "small businesses" profit from this at all.

Releasing property extents under OGL is likely to be useful in the 
realms of planning and development. And UPRNs will benefit a lot of 
property-related businesses or those for which property forms an 
important part of their dataset.

The really big win, of course, would come from OGLing AddressBase. But, 
in the short term, UPRNs + OSM would make for a workable open source 
alternative.

Mark