On 14/01/11 11:22, Tom Steinberg wrote:
What kinds data would a cynic say the government is planning to sell,
to whom, and where do trading funds come into it?
Well, you name it. Anything that the government produces that people
might be willing to pay for!
Trading funds come into it because they produce all the lovely
locked-up data that most of us want the most - maps, postcodes,
companies information, property, weather, etc.
I've never understood why trading funds don't charge people who produce
the data rather than those who consume it - e.g. Companies House could
charge more for registering a company, filing annual returns etc. and
use that to make the documents themselves freely available.
Same goes for the Land Registry - if you buy a property, you pay a small
levy (or part of stamp duty) to cover the cost of maintaining the
registry, but downloading information is free.
Paul
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Paul Waring
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