Hi Matthew I think that you explained very well why we used postcodes as a shorthand for the PAF! But I am happy to personally take a public whipping for the misuse of terms as long as you guys all write to the minister, which is what matters here and now!
The emails to Fallon are meant to strengthen the hand of the ODUG people who are currently in negotiations. They will make sure the minister gets it right. We have a pre-canned email in our messaging system http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/postcodes but you can delete it and write in your own words… including the subject line :-) best, Javier -- Javier Ruiz [email protected] +44(0)7877 911 412 @javierruiz www.OpenRightsGroup.org Winners of Liberty's Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award 2012 On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 16:49, Matthew Somerville wrote: > Hi, > > "The postcode dataset" is, as its name suggests, a dataset of postcodes. The > Postcode Address File (PAF) is a dataset of addresses, much larger than a > dataset of postcodes; it is not "the postcode dataset" (Royal Mail provide > "PostZon", which is a postcode-only cut of the PAF). As with Matt's reply, I > too read the subject and had to then read the fine details to see what it was > you were talking about, because GB's "postcode dataset" was opened up back in > 2010: > http://opendatacommunities.org/datasets/postcodes > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8402327.stm > > A dataset of postcode centroids is already freely available, and saying > "Please ask the Minister to open up the postcodes now." is misleading, > because the Minister will write back and say "The postcodes are already > open". The body of your web page doesn't mention postcodes once (which is > fair enough, as you're asking for addresses), so I'm just not sure why your > headlines refer to postcodes. > > ATB, > Matthew > > On 4 Feb 2013, at 15:45, Javier Ruiz wrote: > > There was no perfect way to describe the exact situation in one sentence. > > It may be oversimplified as we mailed it to thousands of people, but it is > > not misleading: the Postcode Address File (PAF, aka "the postcode dataset") > > is not open. > > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/javier%40openrightsgroup.org >
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