[Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

Nick nick at foresters.org
Sun Aug 2 11:28:49 UTC 2020


Hi Jez

You can limit the number of requests to a specific URL (or set of URLs) 
by IP address - so polling "every available UPRN" would not be an issue 
(e.g. can limit the number of requests from a given IP over a given time 
period).

Cheers

Nick

On 02/08/2020 11:58, Jez Nicholson wrote:

> My initial thought was also "conspiracy!". Licence problem is more 
> likely, or perhaps they were concerned that someone might poll the URL 
> with every available UPRN.
>
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, 11:38 Nick, <nick at foresters.org 
> <mailto:nick at foresters.org>> wrote:
> I have no problem with licencing but the UPRN and related data is
> managed by Authority custodians - do they not retain ownership of that 
> data?
>
> If the authorities sell it to OS, then should this be raised with The Rt
> Hon Alok Sharma MP (he owns 100% of the shares of OS)?
>
> N.B. there are some aspects to address data that is subject to other IP
> rights but the remainder..... is surely of public interest and value.
>
> On 02/08/2020 10:34, Russ Garrett wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk 
> <mailto:andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>> wrote:
> >> Do you have a plausible hypothesis to explain the removal of UPRNs
> >> from the flood warning pages, that also gives us a reason to trust the
> >> organisation that enacted that change?
> > It's almost certainly because some lawyer or other spotted that it's a
> > violation of the PSGA (formerly PSMA) license under which the
> > AddressBase data is made available to the Environment Agency.
> >
> > 
> https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licensing/psga-member-licence.pdf
> >
> > There's no conspiracy here beyond OS zealously protecting its data, as
> > it always has done.
> >
>
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