Jo I'm equally sceptical about "consultation", but you've done a good job so far.
I've taken the liberty of adding some text to the early questions; feel free to accept or reject as you see fit. Happy to help Dave On 16 Feb 2010, at 14:54, Jo Walsh wrote: > dear all, a few notes on an open response to the consultation on access to > Ordnance Survey geographic data in the UK. (A niche issue for a big discuss > list - apologies) > > http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATJnv_t9ROmXZGN0Yjk3ampfMjBmM2ZqZnpkMg&hl=en > > Am mindful that "consultation" can be a bit of a pointless formal exercise, > decisions already being taken behind the scenes, etc. > So don't want to put too much more time into it. > By this weekend (20-21) this should be finished off and sendable. > > The document could be useful as a line-in-the-sand position on open access to > raw data as collected by national mapping agencies, to circulate on Twitter, > etc etc. > > For that kind of re-use purpose, probably better to drop the included > consultation questions, and make the rest of the text a bit more narrative. > > Would appreciate corrections or re-focusings on the doc. > > cheers, > > > jo > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
