Has the Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) followed the lead regarding Open Government Licencing?
Last time I checked the Royal Mail still claimed copyright over postcodes and addresses in Northern Ireland. Something I find totally disgusting. On Sunday, 25 September 2016 21:47:57 BST Owen Boswarva wrote: > I can't see any reason why there should be a problem using Code-Point Open > in OSM, now that Ordnance Survey has applied the Open Government Licence in > place of its own licence. If you read further down, the wiki page gives > examples of OSM projects that use Code-Point Open. > > Owen > > > On 25 September 2016 at 21:34, Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net> wrote: > > I hope this isn't a silly question, but: it seems like all the projects > > > to free the UK postcode database (like npemap and freethepostcode) > > closed down five or more years ago when the OS release CodePoint Open. > > However, this data set is not suitable for use in OSM, according to: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata > > > > The end result is that I still can't type UK postcodes into Nominatim, > > the main OSM search engine, and depend on getting useful results back. > > Which makes it, TBH, bloody useless compared to Google Maps, as 95% of > > the address searches I do are by postcode. Example: > > > > https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php? > > q=LE11+1PN&polygon=1&viewbox= > > "No results" > > and > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=LE11%201PN#map= > > 13/52.7747/-1.1692 > > Gives me "LE11 1##", which is not very close at all. To add insult to > > injury, it says "Results from NPEMap/FreeThePostcode", but it seems like > > either of those projects lets you add to their database any more! > > Nominatim doesn't seem to turn up postcodes even if they are added to > > objects in the OSM database as postcodes. > > > > Does this not bother anyone else? It is just me? If it bothers lots of > > people, why did those projects shut and why does no-one appear to be > > doing anything about it? I kind of feel I must have missed something big > > as this has seemed like an enormous glaring issue for years, but no-one > > else seems bothered... > > > > Gerv > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb