UK Government to Free Ordnance Survey Data

Holy shit. Pinch me, check the date to see that it’s not April 1, then read this British government press release: “The Government will consult on proposals to make data from Ordnance Survey freely available so it can be used for digital innovation and to support democratic accountability.” To say the least, this is as big a reversal in policy as we will ever see in the mapping world. As this understandably smug Guardian article explains, this is part of a larger government effort to open up its data. Via Mapperz, Metafilter, and (of course) OpenGeoData.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM
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[TypeKey Profile Page] James Cutler:

Jonathan - had not seen your blog before but will be adding to my ‘blogroll’. Sadly Grauniad is not quite on the money with their report despite being present; the errors about scale are probably understandable (though any decent researcher would have checked) but the headline about “all” data is pure ‘red top’! More broadly this has I think been in the offing for a while but, as others have said, the details are some way off…

November 18, 2009 at 5:43 AM

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