[Talk-GB] Ofcom consultation - Royal Mail - PAF - OSMUK Response?

[Nick]

Given that "the addresses are created by local authorities", surely 
government already has some ownership? Some of the challenges may be 
around intellectual property rights - e.g. derivation from OS. Whilst 
this is a messy situation, the point is that the data does need to be 
made open as it can save lives, improve efficiency (services, deliveries 
etc.) but also being open, it is easier to identify errors (the data is 
not perfect). Interestingly, the post code areas are often modified by 
Royal Mail in response to corrections made by Local Authorities in their 
address data. So from a systems perspective, this implies that the Local 
Authority data is the core data?
The question is should there be a single unified response from OSM 
and/or individual responses?

On 20/01/2021 12:23, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote:
> Agreed!
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> >On Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 12:21:40 GMT, Mike Baggaley via Talk-GB 
> <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> >
>
> >I think we should be suggesting that the government takes ownership 
> of the data, pays Royal Mail for maintaining it and makes
> >it available as open data for no charge to anyone who wants to use, 
> it in the same way as the postcode centroid data is open
> >data.
>
> >Cheers,
> >Mike
>
> >>Is the linked briefing good from the OSM point of view? And to be 
> followed
> >>in our individual submissions?
>
>
>
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