Via Boing Boing, news that the OpenStreetMap project will attempt to map the entire Isle of Wight this coming weekend. OpenStreetMap’s goal is to produce freely available, copyright-free mapping data for Britain. Unlike the U.S., where government information is public domain, in the U.K., mapping data collected by the Ordnance Survey is held under Crown Copyright; OpenStreetMap argues that the fees the Ordnance Survey collects are excessive, and that public data should be free in any event.

See previous entries: OpenStreetMap London Poster as Fundraiser; OpenStreetMap; London Free Map.