[Talk-GB] Geospatial Commission to release UPRN/ UPSN identifiers under Open Government Licence

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Sat Apr 11 01:06:09 UTC 2020


Why country codes? OSM is geospatially aware.

On 09/04/2020 14:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 14:26, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
> <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 09:21, Tony OSM <tonyosm9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If the data is to be in the public domain the next step has to be tagging.
>>> Do we need country specific tags for these two pieces of data?
>>> What should they be?
> [snip]
>> So I'd propose that we use either ref:uprn and ref:usrn, or
>> ref:UK:uprn and ref:UK:usrn. What does everyone else think?
> Oops. If we were to use the ISO Alpha-2 country codes, it should of
> course be GB rather then UK. So that would make the keys ref:GB:uprn
> and ref:GB:usrn .
>
> Robert.
>




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