http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online
The online maps would be free to all, including commercial users who,
previously, had to acquire expensive and restrictive licences at £5,000 per
usage, a fee many entrepreneurs felt was too high.
About time too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online
The online maps would be free to all, including commercial users who,
previously, had to acquire expensive and restrictive licences at £5,000 per
usage, a fee many entrepreneurs felt was too high.
About time too.
Wow, I'm shocked.
I remember the first day I took over backstage talking to the OS about copying
backstage in the OS. They had a mapping API but it was private beta only and I
think lacked core functions and data people doing mashups would have liked.
Anyway once the door is open, its very
When I was at BT Broadcast we needed the OS data to do proper radial
distance (as the crow would fly if it were made of light) and I think it
cost us a 10% share of £25m, as I recall.
Now I must get around to using the wikileaks postcode data to create some
edge-traced KML postcode zone layres to
We have been in discussion with the organises pretty much constantly
since the last event, and we'd really like to support the next event
too- we had a brilliant time this year with BBCWeatherbot.com (site
still up- the BBC site controllers ain't seen it yet obviously!) and
it was good for staff
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