On Sep 15, 7:06 pm, "John Rowland"
wrote:
If you're connected with the project, could you get them to put in the
ability for third parties to mark data points as erroneous?

I think this is their ambition.

Also, the data
entrants should be shown the effect that each new datum has on that map
before they approve it for permanent inclusion in the database.

That's an interesting idea. One thing that may not be immediately
apparent is that the main postcode database source is trying to be PD,
and is therefore based around people locating their postcode on out-of-
copyright Ordnance Survey maps. Which are therefore 50 years old.
Feeding actual openstreetmap tiles (which are creative commons) into
this process might be considered to make the resulting data creative
commons as well. (Perhaps this is hyper-cautious, certainly the OS
are of the opinion that if you find lots of things on one of their
copyrighted maps and make a table of their coordinates, that's a
derived work. Not sure of any UK caselaw.)

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Abi