It's interesting to see that there is a moderator stating "there have
been quite a few comments on here about the availability of
administrative boundaries."
I wonder if they will get enough people saying the same thing to
change their plans.
Shaun
On 23 Apr 2009, at 17:13, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
The Treasury published its review of Ordnance Survey yesterday. It's a
real damp squib.
As has been endlessly debated many times before, there's a lot of
stuff OSM can survey itself - well, most stuff, really - but the real
killer is things like boundary data, which is very difficult or indeed
impossible to find on the ground. It's insane that the information on
which constituency you live in, and hence who your MP is, is copyright
Ordnance Survey, but that's where we are.
So I'd encourage people to post comments to:
http://strategy.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/goal-1-promote-innovation/
requesting that they release the data publicly with no restrictions,
rather than just making it available via on their own OpenSpace API
under their own terms (which seems to be the current plan).
cheers
Richard
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