On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 22:19, RobJN <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's all a bit unclear but from what I've read it sounds like there will be
> a release of the UPRN / UPSN identifiers and their associated geometries
> ("coordinates" in some text). I see no reference to address data being part
> of the release.There will presumably be a drive in government circles to store addresses as UPRN's, and then fetch the associated location and address data from AddressBase. Assuming Rob's interpretation is correct (I think it probably is) then this could be bad new for sources of addresses and postcodes for OSM. While we'll be more easily able to geo-locate objects from their URPN's, the actual addresses in any datasets will become more likely to be contaminated by OS's IP rights in AddressBase. So this news could be a bit of a double-edged sword I think. e.g. if the FHRS data switched to using UPRNs and AddressBase-derived addresses, we would lose the ability to make use of addresses and postcodes from the FHRS data, but then we'd have accurate locations we could rely on to directly add establishments to the map from their FHRS entry. Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
