I think they had also hoped that the open-source and hobbyist communities would pick it up and do useful things.
I had a look around having signed up a little while back and been given access to the data sets, but there wasn't much of interest to me.
I will celebrate the day that the entire postcode system and list of banking sort codes and their respective locations will be released publicly, for an app I'm working on to reduce fraud. But currently they have my local dentist and postbox, the locations of which I already know about!
Ian
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either the public sector pays to do that, or it gives the raw data to the commercial sector, and they will reasonably expect a return on their investment.
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