On 30 October 2012 19:24, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > The UK Office for National Statistics has released some data [1] under the > Open Government licence [2] . I've extracted the postcode data from it and > created a tile overlay which can help find a postcode for a building in GB, > excluding Northern Ireland. More info is at http://onspd.raggedred.net > including using the tiles layers in Potlatch 2 & JOSM. > > [1] > http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/products/postcode-directories/-nspp-/index.html > [2] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/
While [1] says "ONS Intellectual Property in the postcode products is supplied under Open Government Licence terms" that only refers to ONS's IP rights, and doesn't say anything about anyone else's IP rights... If we follow the "licenses" link to [3] we find why there is this strange wording: "Postcode products: The ONS postcode directories are subject to the Open Government Licence, and Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence." So it's not correct to say that the data has been released under the Open Government License. Unfortunately, it looks like we're back to the same problem we had with CodePoint Open: The ONS dataset presumably contains IP from Royal Mail under the OS OpenData License. When LWG enquired a while ago, the answer came back that we weren't allowed to use CodePoint Open under the OS OpenData License, because we hadn't got permission from Royal Mail. I don't see that this new dataset is going to be any different. But if you think there's a case to be made for being able to use it this time, I think you'll need to run it by LWG first and get their approval. Sorry to have to throw a spanner in the works here, Robert. [3] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/beginner-s-guide/licences/index.html -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb