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[The Guardian says...] But the stifling of competition is most serious. Sometimes, the conflicts are surreal. The supply of postal addresses is an example. Three publicly owned agencies - the Post Office, OS and a consortium of local authorities - run lists of addresses. Because they are forced to put a “value” on the lists, they have been unable to agree a way of creating a single database. The cost of licensing addresses was one reason why returns from the 2001 census were so poor from several fast-changing metropolitan areas, such as Manchester.
Ordnance Survey remains committed to improving the quality of spatial address data for the nation. Indeed we are making a series of enhancements to our most highly detailed address data specifically in response to customer need. We did not have the funds to do this under the last years of vote funding.
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