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Result of Action 2 Open Standards Board Meeting 2015-11-13 #50

Closed PhilKnight closed 5 years ago

PhilKnight commented 7 years ago

Open Register for Addressing Discovery Project

What are the results of the discovery project initiated here:

https://github.com/alphagov/open-standards/blob/master/docs/_meetings/2015%E2%80%9011%E2%80%9013-open-standards-board.md#action-2

edent commented 7 years ago

Hi Phil, I'll take a look and see if we have anything. It was @psd who too took the action, so hopefully he knows.

psd commented 7 years ago

I think the word 'discovery' makes this action point sound larger than I had in mind when I accepted the action.

Ordnance Survey's licensing terms for UPRNs has a number of restrictions, making them difficult to publish as open data under an open license such as OGL, particularly when combined with geographic data.

I wrote about using UPRNs in registers in a blog post describing how registers emerge and the registers team have been working with DfE to establish a register of schools in England. The alpha currently contains UPRNs and one of the outputs of alpha will no doubt be a better understanding of issues the team and users of the register have with UPRNs.

Also as a part of our work shaping registers, I sketched out how an address and street register could be represented using AddressBase data and made a simple demo application to view this data.

It was announced in Budget 16 that government is developing options for the creation of an open address register and subsequently the 2017 Conservative Party manifesto includes a commitment on 'Digital Land' which I understand is being worked on currently.

PhilKnight commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the feedback Paul. It seems I had put 1 & 1 together to make 5. I had assumed that this discovery project was one and the same with:

GDS Data Group and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are working in conjunction with a range of other stakeholders to explore how to fully exploit the benefits of open and freely available address data." Source.

I am right to assume that since Budget 2016 there has been work ongoing (unrelated to this 'discovery' project) which is where the "up-to-£5-million" was spent and that this project has now evolved into the 'Digital Land' policy?