ALT Flaggen der Länder Kanada, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Katar und der Schweiz, die in Gruppe B der Fußball-WM 2026 sind. // Flags of Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, and Switzerland, which are in Group B of the 2026 Football World Cup.

ALT Flaggen der Länder Mexiko, Südafrika, Südkorea und Tschechien, die in Gruppe A der Fußball-WM 2026 sind. // Flags of Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, and the Czech Republic, which are in Group A of the 2026 Football World Cup.

ALT 3.4 Public Sector Licence (PSL) The Government Digital Service (DGS) was currently being restructured, with the aim of consolidating digital expertise to improve public services. The AMU were continuing to engage with the relevant DGS team, but no change to the current five-year public sector licence was currently envisaged. The AMU would continue to monitor developments with the National Data Library (NDL), both as to content and public availability. THE AMU reported there were 6,500 registered PSL users, with a small percentage of those registered not currently using PAF. Most of these were at the low volume end of the spectrum, such as Parish Councils. The AMU also advised that applications for new licences were currently continuing to run at around 25 applications a month.

ALT c. Data Protection and Digital Information Bill The Board discussed progress of the Bill through the House of Lords. A first reading had been completed, with multiple amendments proposed. These were now passing through the Committee Stage. The Chairman understood that no timescale for completion of that stage had yet been given. If adopted, an amendment to clause 142 of the bill would require the production of an open national address register based on data held by local authorities. Some media reports suggested, however, that the amendment may have been withdrawn.

ALT North Yorkshire Council said it "along with many others across the country" had opted to "eliminate" the apostrophe from street signs. A spokesperson added: "All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666. "This restricts the use of punctuation marks and special characters (e.g. apostrophes, hyphens and ampersands) to avoid potential problems when searching the databases as these characters have specific meanings in computer systems."

ALT Screenshot of Bluesky post by John Murray @murraydata.uk: May 5, 2024 at 13:00 No it isn't being misreported, it highlights the problem of address matching across data sources. In that case Royal Mail PAF gives it as 'ST. MARYS WALK', OS AddressBase LPI 'ST MARYS WALK' (no full stop), OS gazetteer 'St Mary's Walk', Bing Map 'Saint Mary's Walk' , Google Maps 'St Mary's Walk'.

ALT Royal Mail has launched a legal accusation against Lee Smith, a software developer, claiming he copied their extensive postcode database to support his own venture, GetAddress. This accusation was formally made in a claim filed with the High Court on March 28. The case centers on the alleged unauthorized use of the Postcode Address File, a crucial dataset used by Royal Mail for efficient delivery services across the UK. Royal Mail claims that Smith, through his company Codeberry Ltd., extracted significant parts of this database without permission, effectively breaching Royal Mail’s copyright.

ALT Written answer UIN HL455 The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) in the Cabinet Office does not undertake a central assessment of measures to encourage adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN) in government databases. Deployment and adherence to policies and standards is ultimately the responsibility of individual organisations. …

ALT Not displaying your house number clearly – £500 fine According to the Street Naming and Numbering (England) Regulations 1999, homeowners are required to display their house number clearly. House numbers should be placed in a visible location where they can be seen from the street, and be made of a durable material that’s at least three inches high, or could face a hefty fixed penalty notice of £500.

ALT PAF Licence Pricing Changes 2023/24 … A view was expressed that an increase consistent with the lower end of an 8-10% profit on income would have been optically better. …