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The #GeospatialCommission has published a list of 300 or so datasets it says are used during the housing and planning process, and highlights in particular a list of 50, "49 of which are covered by OGL".
gov.uk/government/pub… #Geo6 #ukhousing #geospatial #opendata (or not)

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The GC's list includes some useful datasets, but also quite a few errors. The effect is to overstate the number of #opendata resources that are readily available for the purposes of housing and planning in the UK.

I'll just run through some of the licensing issues …

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Land Registry's INSPIRE Index Polygons are not re-usable under the Open Government Licence in any meaningful sense, because use of the polygons is subject to additional Ordnance Survey terms. gov.uk/guidance/inspi… + ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/lice… #deriveddata not-#opendata

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Two big announcements today from @GeospatialC:

● release of UPRNs/USRNs under OGL gov.uk/government/new…

● 10-year Public Sector Geospatial Agreement with OS gov.uk/government/new…

Good or bad news for #opendata and the UK's #geospatial strategy?

Let's have a look.

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See also:

@GDSteam post on UPRNs/USRNs as #openstandards technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/02/ide…

@GeoPlaceLLP press release geoplace.co.uk/news-events/ne…

@OrdnanceSurvey press release on the PSGA ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-gover…

● OS's updated "Open MasterMap" page ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-gover…

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The "Open MasterMap" products and APIs mentioned in today's announcement will go live in summer 2020, so there's no #opendata you can download right away.

We don't yet have full specs either. For example OS is still validating its proposal for the Open USRN dataset.

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