I just came across a post on Olly Jackson’s blog about Ordnance Survery finally opening up some of their data. There’s been widespread disquiet for several years over OS’s strict licensing regime for use of their data, including online use, which generally boils down to charging people a lot of money to use data collected by a government department. While not yet going far enough, allowing people to integrate OS maps into their web apps Google Maps-style is definitely progress.

The OS OpenSpace site is here.

Posted Sunday, May 25th, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
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