On 09/12/09 21:29, Peter Miller wrote: >> *I'm sure this is old news to some of you, but... >> >> **http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8402327.stm > > Arhhh. but > > "Correction - Poscodes will not be free" > http://giscussions.blogspot.com/2009/12/correction-poscodes-will-not-be-free.html
I don't think either piece really tells us what is going on. The BBC story is essentially about the announcement made a couple of weeks ago about the OS data, which did indeed say it would include postcode boundary data. So RM have denied any plan to release the PAF, but then that isn't what was ever announced. The real problem with the government announcement was that it talked about the OS releasing postcode boundary data but, as far as I know, the OS doesn't have any such data other presumably than what it has by agreement with RM. I suspect that the real truth of the situation is that whoever wrote the government press release assume that the OS had the data and could be made to release it but that one of the things the consultation will establish is that they don't/can't. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
