Re: [backstage] Good news for mashups - Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

2009-11-19 Thread Sam Mbale
Great! Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network http://www.mpelembe.net Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tvwrote: When I was at BT Broadcast we needed the OS data to do proper radial distance (as the crow would fly if it were

Re: [backstage] Good news for mashups - Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

2009-11-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Brian Butterworth wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] Good news for mashups - Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

2009-11-19 Thread Iain Wallace
I would love OS maps to be a view in Google Maps. OS maps are far superior to Google's. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online The online maps

Re: [backstage] New site/service for all UK radio?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Webster
A bit more news today http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/19/bbc-internet-radio-player-commercial Extract Tim Davie, BBC director of audio and music, said today that the project would give web users access to more than 400 Ofcom-licensed national and local UK stations, in an initiative