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 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
