Screenshot of geocoded Peterborough City Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Latest #openaddresses from our pals in local government:

Peterborough City Council (in the East of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

I have geocoded the property locations for maps etc

#UKhousing #localgov #proptech #FOI #opendata

New thread in the UK category of the OpenStreetMap Community Forum:

2026 Q2 Quarterly Project: Addresses community.openstreetmap.org/t/2026-q2-qu...

Related wiki page wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quar...

#OSM #geospatial #opendata #openaddresses

Screenshot of geocoded Arun District Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

#Openaddresses evening edition:

Arun District Council (in the South East region of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Arundel! Bognor Regis! Littlehampton! Probably other towns, have a poke around

#UKhousing #localgov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

First #openaddresses of the month:

Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk (in the East of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thx @bcklwn.bsky.social!

I have geocoded the records for maps etc

#UKhousing #localgov #opendata

More #openaddresses:

Rochdale Borough Council (in the North West of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

No UPRNs sadly so I haven't geocoded the property locations

#UKhousing #localgov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Southampton City Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Big week for #openaddresses:

Southampton City Council (in the South East of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thx @southamptoncc.bsky.social!

I've geocoded the locations for maps etc

#UKhousing #localgov #proptech #FOI #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded West Suffolk Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

More #openaddresses for you:

West Suffolk Council (in the East of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thanks @westsuffolkcouncil.bsky.social!

I've geocoded the property locations

#UKhousing #localgov #FOI #opendata

More #openaddresses from our friends in local government:

Tameside MBC (in the North West of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

No UPRNs due to some practical barriers, so I haven't geocoded this list

#UKhousing #FOI #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Glasgow City Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Big #openaddresses news:

Glasgow City Council in Scotland has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thanks @glasgowcitycouncil.bsky.social!

I have geocoded the property locations for maps etc.

#UKhousing #localgov #geospatial #FOI #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Rushcliffe Borough Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Latest #openaddresses drama:

Rushcliffe Borough Council has confirmed its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

This was temporarily withdrawn due to IP concerns, but the Council has now restated OGL permission (except for the postcodes) 😊

#UKhousing #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded City of Doncaster Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Latest #openaddresses from local government:

City of Doncaster Council (in the Yorkshire and The Humber region of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thx @mydoncaster.bsky.social!

#UKhousing #geospatial #localgov #opengov #opendata

More #openaddresses from our friends in local government:

Gateshead Council in North East of England has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

No UPRNs this time (it's complicated …) so I haven't geocoded the list

#UKhousing #FOI #opendata

Experimenting with using Replit to build a postal address validator peterkwells.com/2026/03/09/e... by @peterkwells.com

● UK address-validator.replit.app
● France french-address-validator.replit.app

One of these is based on #opendata and #openaddresses, the other not so much. Guess which is which

Screenshot of geocoded Wandsworth Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Latest #openaddresses:

Wandsworth Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Wandsworth is the 15th London borough to unlock its CT list. I've geocoded the property locations for maps etc.

#UKhousing #geospatial #localgov #opengov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded London Borough of Richmond upon Thames address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

First #openaddresses of the month:

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

I've geocoded the property locations for maps etc.

#UKhousing #geospatial #localgov #opengov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded East Suffolk Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Another great release of #openaddresses to end the week:

East Suffolk Council in the East of England has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

I have geocoded the property locations as usual

#UKhousing #geospatial #localgov #opengov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Merton Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

More #openaddresses from local government:

Merton Council in London has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

#UKhousing #geospatial #localgov #opengov #opendata

In the UK addresses – for example, "29 Acacia Road, Beanotown" – are maintained by local authorities. The list of address changes as flats, houses and offices get developed and demolished. These local lists are collected into a national dataset and made accessible to other public and private sector organisations. While this happens address data gets tangled up in a complex web of other organisations who end up holding some intellectual property rights in the data, particularly the Royal Mail and the Ordnance Survey. The Royal Mail is a business and the Ordnance Survey is a business owned by the government. Because they are businesses their primary goal has become to generate revenue for themselves by selling the data, rather than maximising the public good that could be created from using the data. As a result the UK's address data has become expensive, hard to access, not always accurate, and hard to correct.

An opportunity to put address data higher on the UK agenda peterkwells.com/2026/02/21/a... post from @peterkwells.com

Also:

How to respond to the DSIT survey on increasing access to public sector data peterkwells.com/2026/02/21/h...

#openaddresses #opendata #datapolicy

Screenshot of geocoded Mansfield District Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Yet more #openaddresses from local government:

Mansfield District Council in the East Midlands of England has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

This one took a while but we got there in the end

#UKhousing #localgov #opengov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Haringey Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

More #openaddresses from local government:

Haringey Council in London has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

As usual I have geocoded the property locations for maps etc.

#UKhousing #localgov #opengov #opendata

This post isn't intended to dissuade ONS from publishing postcodes in ONSUD and NSUL – indeed, the availability of this information is invaluable, given that an open national dataset of UPRNs matched to postcodes is not available from any other source. My concern is that the licensing status of the third-party data is not adequately documented, and that this may present difficulties for re-users in future. While ONS and Ordnance Survey are both public bodies, they have quite different organisational cultures and approaches to open data – "open by default" is intrinsic to ONS's business model, whereas OS has strong commercial priorities and has historically fought tooth and nail to limit the amount of open data it is obliged to publish.

Probably unrelated, but I wrote a post last year raising concerns about the licensing basis of ONS's use of postcodes in NSUL and ONSUD:

Open data: are ONS's address data products legal? www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

#geospatial #openaddresses #opendata

Dozens of address datasets from UK local authorities have been published on WhatDoTheyKnow www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

New blog post highlighting results from a batch request made last year. A few datasets seem to be covered by permission for re-use as #opendata.

#FOI #openaddresses -ish

Screenshot from getaddress.io: "Important Notice - GetAddress held to infringe IDDQD Limited's database right and Royal Mail Group Limited's database right and copyright The High Court of England & Wales held on 10 October 2025 that address data used by the GetAddress service infringes the intellectual property rights of Royal Mail Group Limited and IDDQD Limited. Details of the Court's findings can be found in its judgment, which is published on the National Archives case law website at https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2025/2561. The copying (even internally) or making available of address data from the GetAddress service by GetAddress customers may, depending on the specific facts, also infringe the intellectual property rights of Royal Mail Group Limited and IDDQD Limited. This notice has been prepared pursuant to paragraph 16 of the Court's Order dated 6 November 2025".

Exciting update for GetAddress customers getaddress.io

High Court judgment from October caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2025...

Possibly quite stressful for smol bean SME devs, actually. All because we don't have #openaddresses in the UK

#IPlaw #techpolicy #datapolicy not - #opendata

Nabil Freeman @NabsFreeman Help! getAddress situation. What is everybody doing? I don't like the principle of going with the competitor that chose lawfare over providing a better service. What are my other options? Chris Thompson @rick_dudester I have no idea what to do. I've been paying £25 per month for 2000 lookups per day. If I actually used that much, the equivalent with idealpostcodes would be £1,700 per month.

UK business needs #openaddresses

Screenshot of geocoded London Borough of Bexley address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

I know there's a lot going on but here's some more #openaddresses for you:

London Borough of Bexley has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Geocoded by me using the magic of UPRNs

#UKhousing #FOI #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Brent Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Latest #openaddresses:

Brent Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Brent is the tenth London borough to unlock its CT list

I've geocoded the property records for maps etc.

#UKhousing #FOI #opendata

Screenshot from getAddress() website with message: "Due to a recent court decision, GetAddress.io is currently unavailable. We will provide more information is as soon as we can."

Sucks if you're a customer. This kind of thing wouldn't happen if the UK had #openaddresses like a civilised country – write to your MP

#IPlaw #techpolicy #datapolicy not- #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Lewisham Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

First #openaddresses of the month:

Lewisham Council in London has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thanks @lewisham.gov.uk!

I've geocoded the property locations, of course

#FOI #UKhousing #localgov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Aberdeenshire Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Some #openaddresses for the weekend:

Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thanks @abshirecouncil.bsky.social!

#FOI #UKhousing #proptech #localgov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Milton Keynes City Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

More #openaddresses to end the week:

Milton Keynes City Council in the South East of England has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

UPRN coverage is about 89% so I have made a geocoded version too

#FOI #UKhousing #proptech #localgov #opendata