On Wed, 2025-10-15 at 10:35 +0100, SK53 wrote: > I think Owen Boswarva has expressed doubts as to whether the NSUL > dataset > from ONS is truly open data (notwithstanding the OGL licence). IIRC > this is > because it is not clear how the association of UPRN to postcode is > constructed, and a risk that this involves use of non-open data.
Owen also got Leeds City Council to release addresses, the first dataset included postcodes from the Leeds City Council. A day after Owens blog post Leeds took the dataset down, and re uploaded without the postcodes. The ONS dataset has been around for years with plenty of users, the data would have been taken down by now if it was not usable. https://www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-addr9.htm Also Owen has taked about a 77m case where 77m downloaded a dataset labelled as OGL from the government, but OS later claimed to have rights over the data and that it wasn't OGL. The court said OGL applied to the data and it's not 77m responsibility to validate that one government body has the authority to release a dataset. https://www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-77m1.htm CJ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
