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Sam Mbale
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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
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
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
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
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