[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

[Gregory Marler]

On 16/09/2007, Simon Hewison <simon at zymurgy.org> wrote:
>
> John Baker wrote:
> > Anyway either way does anyone have a list of street names and postcodes?
> > I would hope a mapping community would have something like this or at
> > least an idea of how to get it..........
> >
>
> What you can find reasonably easily, and I think will have less rigid
> licensing issues is the local council list of rubbish collection days.
> They will normally publish a list of street names of all streets that
> have a rubbish collection within their area, and what day. This is a
> statement of facts; and using that I can derive the fact that my street
> has landfill and compostable waste collected on a Monday, and all other
> recycling waste collected on a Tuesday; as do my neighbouring streets,
> but streets on the other side of the council's area have their
> collections on different days. Importantly for us, it's an official list
> of street names in a given geographical area; sometimes with partial
> postcodes.
>
> Ask your local council's information officer nicely if you can't work
> out what you can do with information you download from their web site.
>
> Also, in the UK anyway, the local council are also the first to formally
> name any new streets or developments, and issue postcodes to new streets
> or developments. The INFORMATION (ie. statements of fact) that is given
> in such announcements is public domain.
>
> Database right, in the UK at least, is entirely different to public
> domain information, and a different concept to copyright. Royal Mail's
> PAF file is a database, and the tortuous licensing requirements forbid
> you from using it in pretty much any way that their lawyers haven't
> sanctioned. You can't publish direct extracts of the information taken
> from it, or make it searchable.. or that sort of thing without paying
> lots in licence fees. Multimap, Google, streetmap.co.uk and so on pay
> Royal Mail lots for the sort of lookup that they do.
>
> --
> Simon Hewison
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But if we monitored council notices for loads of years we could have our own
postcode databae and do what we like with it for free?

-- 
Gregory
nomoregrapes at gmail.com
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